Mark Rosenzweig dies at 86; UC Berkeley pioneer in brain plasticity research
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 02:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Rosenzweig and his colleagues found that the human brain can physically grow and change as people age. Scientists had long thought that the brain structure was 'etched in stone.' Mark Rosenzweig, a UC Berkeley psychologist who pioneered studies showing that the human brain can physically grow and change as we age, died July 20 in his home in Berkeley from kidney failure. He...