plasticity
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Even more interesting, the brain became better at recognizing them over time, suggesting that learning or neural plasticity was still taking place during anesthesia.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
The research is part of a larger effort to understand how plasticity in the brain's sensory systems contributes to learning and long-term memory.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
As a result, cells lose what scientists call metabolic plasticity, their ability to rapidly adapt to shifting energy demands.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
The results showed that sleep deprivation disrupted the maintenance of synaptic plasticity in the CA2 region.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
The possibilities thus opened up are very great: no less than the combination by mankind of the stability of instinct with the plasticity of reason.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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