plasticity

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The researchers then performed electrophysiological recordings on hippocampal tissue samples to assess synaptic plasticity, the brain's ability to strengthen or weaken connections between nerve cells in response to experience and learning.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

The connection caught researchers' attention because other studies have linked declining D-serine levels with aging-related cognitive impairment and reduced synaptic plasticity, the brain's ability to strengthen neural connections involved in memory and learning.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

"If you start with an already functional synapse, that plasticity protocol doesn't work," Harnett says.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

Previously, scientists believed gene therapies for hearing loss had to be administered in the first few years of life before the window closed on brain plasticity, said Jonathon Whitton, Regeneron’s lead researcher on this drug.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

But ah, the exposure indeed, the helpless plasticity of childhood that isn't dear or sacred to somebody!

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry