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brain plasticity

flying bat

Bats’ Built-in Backup System for When They Can’t Hear

Categories Life & Non-humans

Assistant Project Scientist Marta Pratelli and Professor Nick Spitzer study neurotransmitter switching, an evolving area of research investigating how the brain changes function and structure in response to experience.

Cognitive Deficits from Meth, PCP Stem from Common Neurotransmitter Switch, Can be Reversed

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Early-born neurons (magenta) in the hippocampus create a long-persisting copy of a memory.

Brain Creates Triple Backup: New Study Reveals Multiple Copies of Memories

Categories Brain & Behavior

young brothers watching tv

Children’s brains shaped by their time on tech devices, research to-date shows

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology

Detecting learning-dependent changes in neural networks to understand how memory is made in the prefrontal region of the brain

Traumatic memories can rewire the brain

Categories Brain & Behavior

Lab mouse.

Brain is ‘rewired’ during pregnancy to prepare for motherhood

Categories Brain & Behavior

Complex sugar molecules control the formation of perineuronal nets (shown here in green) that surround neurons to help stabilize connections in the brain.

Sugars affect brain ‘plasticity,’ helping with learning, memory, recovery

Categories Brain & Behavior

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