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Mashup Score: 9Silent synapses are abundant in the adult brain - 1 year(s) ago
MIT neuroscientists have discovered that the adult brain contains millions of “silent synapses”—immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they’re recruited to help form new memories.
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The adult brain is more malleable than previously thought, according to researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. They trained a 50-year-old man, blind from birth, to ‘see’ by ear, and found that neural circuits in his brain formed so-called topographic maps—a type of brain organization previously thought to emerge only in infancy. This finding reported recently in NeuroImage, sheds…
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The billions of microbes living in your gut could play a key role in supporting the formation of new nerve cells in the adult brain, with the potential to possibly prevent memory loss in old age and help to repair and renew nerve cells after injury, an international research team spanning Singapore, UK, Australia, Canada, US, and Sweden has discovered.
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When adult brain cells are injured, they revert to an embryonic state, according to new findings published in the April 15, 2020 issue of Nature by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere. The scientists report that in their newly adopted immature state, the cells become capable of re-growing new connections that, under the right conditions,…
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