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Dr. Gina Turrigiano is the Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science in the Biology Department at Brandeis University, where she heads the Turrigiano Lab.

A new study reveals that the thalamus, long overshadowed by the cortex and hippocampus, plays a crucial role in shaping and updating brain connections.

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Scientists knew from earlier research that astrocytes could influence brain plasticity. In a previous experiment, transplanting astrocytes from young cats into the visual cortex of older cats ...

This underscores its crucial role in brain plasticity and the reorganization of tactile information. These findings could provide a better understanding of how the brain of a person born without a ...

Brain health has emerged as one of the defining challenges of our time, driven by a double whammy of soaring rates of ...

Neuronal plasticity is a fundamental process in neuronal development and recovery from brain disorders. The Trophin lab focuses on the role of neurotrophic factors, particularly Brain-Derived ...

Synaptic plasticity is the basis of information storage in the brain. Two of the most studied forms of plasticity, long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD), involve both ...

Three scientists have collectively won The Brain Prize—the largest award for neuroscience—in recognition of their contributions to the science of brain plasticity. Richard Morris, a neuroscientist at ...