Your brain is constantly evolving. Throughout your life, it reshapes, adjusts, and grows stronger in response to learning, new experiences, and your habits. This amazing shape-shifting ability is ...

Fuelling nerve cell function and plasticity Date: April 8, 2024 Source: University of Cologne Summary: Scientists disclose how mitochondria control tissue rejuvenation and synaptic plasticity in ...

More information: Wojciech Ambroziak et al, Thermally induced neuronal plasticity in the hypothalamus mediates heat tolerance, Nature Neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-024-01830-0 ...

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a neurotrophin that supports neuronal growth and survival and plays a critical role in regulating synaptic plasticity and cognitive function. Reduced BDNF ...

Excitation-transcription coupling, neuronal gene expression and synaptic plasticity. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2023 Nov;24 (11):672-692. Epub 2023 Sep 29 PubMed. Lin Y, Li LL, Nie W, Liu X, Adler A, Xiao C, ...

The study "Enhanced mitochondrial fusion during a critical period of synaptic plasticity in adult-born neurons" has been published in the journal Neuron. Graphical abstract. Credit: Neuron (2024).

Precision Microfluidic Control of Neuronal Ensembles in Cultured Cortical Networks. Advanced Materials Technologies, 2024; DOI: 10.1002/admt.202400894 ...

A study led by the Transcriptional and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Neuronal Plasticity laboratory, headed by Angel Barco at the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of the Spanish National ...

A study led by the Transcriptional and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Neuronal Plasticity laboratory, headed by Angel Barco at the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of the Spanish National ...

Brain plasticity is thought to underlie learning, memory and early childhood development. It's also how the brain revises its circuitry to help recover from a brain injury — or, in Mora's case ...