Monday, July 05, 2021

Research reveals a new form of brain plasticity


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/tich-rta062821.php

 

News Release 1-Jul-2021
The interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC Herzliya)

 

The adult brain is more malleable than previously thought, according to researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. They trained a 50-year-old man, blind from birth, to "see" by ear, and found that neural circuits in his brain formed so-called topographic maps - a type of brain organization previously thought to emerge only in infancy. This finding reported recently in Neuroimage, sheds new light on the brain's ability for change and holds promise for helping people restore lost function, for example, after a stroke.


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