Thursday, November 08, 2007

Adult brain cells are movers and shakers

Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Date: November 8, 2007

Summary:

It’s a general belief that the circuitry of young brains has robust flexibility but eventually gets “hard-wired” in adulthood. As Johns Hopkins researchers and their colleagues report in the Nov. 8 issue of Neuron, however, adult neurons aren’t quite as rigidly glued in place as we suspect.