Dr. Gina Turrigiano is the Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science in the Biology Department at Brandeis University, where she heads the Turrigiano Lab. Dr. Turrigiano completed her undergraduate ...

Groundbreaking neurobiologist, Dr. Gina Turrigiano heads up the Turrigiano Lab in Brandeis University’s Biology Department. Dr. Turrigiano’s work focuses on brain plasticity. Our conversation covered ...

For most of the 20th century, the scientific consensus held that the adult brain was essentially fixed, unable to grow new ...

A History of Brain Plasticity Research Even though the terms brain plasticity and neuroplasticity are associated with late 20th- and now 21st-century scientific and medical thinking, the concept of ...

Research shows pregnancy triggers extensive brain plasticity, reshaping neural networks involved in social cognition, emotion ...

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Brain plasticity — also called neuroplasticity — is an odd term for most people, with the word “plastic” causing images of Tupperware or Saran Wrap to pop into your head. However, brain plasticity is ...

A new study from Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct transmission sites - not a shared site - to achieve different types of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The cortical region of the brain does not reorganize after amputation of a limb. Machine learning is essential ...

Even though the terms brain plasticity and neuroplasticity are associated with late 20th- and now 21st-century scientific and medical thinking, the concept of brain plasticity has been known (although ...