The Spock lesion
You are the captain of a military submarine travelling underneath a large iceberg. An onboard explosion has caused you to lose most of your oxygen supply and...
All posts tagged with plasticity
Making mice see red
I just wrote about the alteration of a behavior pattern (decision-making) resulting from injury to the prefrontal cortex. That is the kind of functional spe...
Adult neuron migration
Neurophilosophy has this nice post reviewing work by Curtis and colleagues in Science. The main idea of the paper is that a neural migratory pathway in rats...
Molecular roots of plasticity
A Harvard Medical School press release (via Science Blog) describes a study by Majdan and Shatz in the current Nature Neuroscience:
Brain gene powers … activate!
A literature search for another topic brought me this article from 2004 by Suk Jin Hong and colleagues (Johns Hopkins):