Tag: Brain Plasticity
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Nation & World
What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
Observations in mice hint at the role of daydreams in remodeling the brain
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Nation & World
Medical School neurobiologist wins prestigious Brain Prize
Michael Greenberg shares The Brain Prize, considered the world’s most significant prize for brain research, with two neuroscientists for their critical insights into brain plasticity.
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Nation & World
Memories are made of this
In a lecture, neuroscientist Eric Kandel ’52 said that researchers have learned that short-term memory, the ability to recall things for minutes or hours, is fundamentally different from long-term memory, which holds information for weeks, months, even a lifetime.