Adult brain neurones can remodel connections
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 17:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Overturning a century of prevailing thought, scientists are finding that neurones in the adult brain can remodel their connections. In work reported in the 24 November online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Elly Nedivi, associate professor of neurobiology at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and colleagues found that a type of neurone implicated in autism spectrum disorders remodels itself in a strip of brain tissue only as thick as four sheets of tissue paper at the upper border of cortical layer 2...
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