… Laboratory, Harvard University. To investigate myelin plasticity, the researchers used mouse models where specific … findings, the researchers can now investigate how myelin plasticity plays a role in other contexts, including disease. …
… Muming Poo in UC Berkeley, studying spike-timing dependent plasticity and sensory experience dependent synaptic plasticity in the Xenopus tadpole and zebrafish retinotectal …
… neurons change how they communicate, an ability called “plasticity” that underlies learning and memory and other … he wants to know how they differ when neurons undergo plasticity—for instance, when new incoming information …
… any other treatment due to the decline in the capacity for plasticity that comes with age.” The authors also sought to … demonstration of how understanding principles of synaptic plasticity can yield a novel therapeutic strategy,” Bear …
… layer is where there is relatively high flexibility or “plasticity,” even in the adult brain. Yet, thalamic … thalamic synapses they are likely to exhibit significant “plasticity.” Another is that the surprising benefit of …