Thursday, August 07, 2008

Trigger for brain plasticity identified. Signal comes, surprisingly, from outside the brain

Source: Children's Hospital Boston
Date: August 7, 2008

Summary:

Researchers have long sought a factor that can trigger the brain's ability to learn - and perhaps recapture the "sponge-like" quality of childhood. In the August 8 issue of the journal Cell, neuroscientists at Children's Hospital Boston report that they've identified such a factor, a protein called Otx 2.