News tagged with sensory deprivation

New study finds external stimulation impacts white matter development in the postnatal brain

A team at Children's National Medical Center has found that external stimulation has an impact on the postnatal development of a specific region of the brain. Published in Nature Neuroscience, the study used sensory deprivation ...

Medical research Aug 13, 2012 | not rated yet | 1

Researchers uncover steps in synapse building, pruning

Like a gardener who stakes some plants and weeds out others, the brain is constantly building networks of synapses, while pruning out redundant or unneeded synapses. Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory led by Assistant ...

Neuroscience Nov 16, 2011 | not rated yet | 0 |