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A Tale of Plasticities

August 15, 2018September 7, 2018 Cameron McKay 0 Comments Adult neurogenesis, Axon, Axons, Basic science, Brain, Cells, Connections, Cortex, Dendrite, Dendrites, Dendritic spine, Development, environment, Experience-dependent plasticity, Gray matter, Hippocampus, Human memory, Humans, Juggling, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Marian Diamond, Memories, Memory, MRI, MRI research, Neurodevelopment, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuroplasticity, Plasticity, Rats, Research, Science, Synapse, Synaptic pruning, Synaptogenesis, Taxi drivers, TBI, Traumatic brain injury, White matter

You may have heard it repeated in the media and pop culture that humans’ brains don’t change at all after birth. However, the past several decades of neuroscience research have… Read more

Feature image of a brain with a circle pulsating from the center, to symbolically describe synesthesia.

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

What is Synesthesia?

September 13, 2016June 5, 2019 Kayleen Schreiber 1 Comment Audition, auditory, Brain, Color, Colors, Dendrite, Hear, Hearing, Mix, Mixed, Music, Perception, See, Sense, Senses, Sight, Synesthesia, Vision

Have you ever wondered if you experience the world like everyone else? We assume that our senses tell us what’s going on in the world, but they’re far from perfect.… Read more

Aging Brain Development

Smells Like Teen Synapses: A Look Inside Adolescent Brains and Behaviors

November 18, 2015March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 1 Comment Adolescent, Adult, Dendrite, Dendritic spine, Development, Emotion, Mindfulness, Plasticity, Prefrontal Cortex, Ronald Dahl, Synaptogenesis, Teenager, Teens, Ventral striatum

“I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child,… Read more

Aging Learning and Memory Neuro News

Keeping Memories Fresh by Keeping Glutamate In Check

January 21, 2015March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 1 Comment 2014, Aging, Alzheimer’s disease, Dendrite, glutamate, Glutamatergic, Hippocampus, Long-term potentiation, LTP, Memory, Morrison, Neuroplasticity, Pereira, PNAS, Prefrontal Cortex, Riluzole, Spine

We are another year older, perhaps a little wiser, and probably more forgetful. Indeed, making memories is quite a process in the brain: specific synaptic connections are strengthened and new… Read more

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