Vanishing White Matter Disease (VWMD) affects brain function due to reduced eIF2B activity. New research uncovers how cells ...

This capacity for cellular plasticity is critical for normal embryonic development, but when recapitulated in the adult it can give rise to, or contribute to, a variety of diseases. This is ...

These changes are termed intrinsic plasticity and can affect neuronal dendrites, somata or axons. Depending on the cellular compartment in which intrinsic plasticity occurs, local dendritic ...

New research from the University of Chicago challenges long-held beliefs about how synaptic plasticity contributes to memory ...

Neuroscientists believe that synaptic plasticity, as these changes are called, plays an important role in storing memories.

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

"By simulating a bio-realistic network of neurons with dendrites and localized plasticity, the model showed that localized dendritic plasticity mechanisms are necessary for replicating key ...

Researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center have solved a cellular mystery that may lead to better therapies ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition to determining individual difference factors, recent interventions demonstrate that cognitive and brain deterioration is not unalterable and that the older adult brain retains some ...