X-linked mental retardation protein is found to mediate synaptic plasticity in hippocampus
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have solved part of a puzzle concerning the relationship between changes in the strength of synapses -- the tiny gaps across which nerve cells in the brain communicate -- and dysfunctions in neural circuits that have been linked with drug addiction, mental retardation and other cognitive disorders.