Science news articles about 'neural plasticity'

... and cortactin, which regulate and control the sprouting of neurons -- a mechanism known as neural plasticity. Neurons, or nerve cells, process and transmit information by electrochemical signalling ...

... where recovery is limited due to restricted neural plasticity — including brain tumours, stroke, ... amblyopic visual system retains a great deal more neural plasticity than previously thought. Harnessing ...

... of disease," said Anthony Hannan, PhD, an expert in environmental enrichment and its effects on neural plasticity at the Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, in Australia who was ...

... from 1 to 10," says Joachim Scholz, MD, of the Neural Plasticity Research Group in the MGH Department of ... Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD, director of the Neural Plasticity Research Group and senior author ...

... selectivity for written words during the experimental reading tasks. The findings provide evidence that experience-driven neural plasticity extends beyond lower level representations of ...

... contrast in the sound of mice pups, so they stand out more in the acoustic environment." Showing neural plasticity Liu's research focuses on how the brain evolves to process sounds in the natural ...

... . The monkeys could easily switch back and forth between the two decoders, showing a level of neural plasticity never before associated with the control of a prosthetic device, the researchers said. ...

... The study sheds light on the neural mechanisms linking environmental feedback to neural plasticity — the brain's ability to change in response to experience. It has implications for understanding how ...