{"id":101829,"date":"2020-02-03T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/early-life-experiences-biologically-and-functionally-mature-the-brain"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:30:38","slug":"early-life-experiences-biologically-and-functionally-mature-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/early-life-experiences-biologically-and-functionally-mature-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Early Life Experiences Biologically and Functionally Mature the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/early-life-experiences-biologically-and-functionally-mature-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experiences early in life have an impact on the brain\u2019s biological and functional development, shows a new study by a team of neuroscientists. Its findings, which centered on changes in mice and rats, reveal how learning and memory abilities may vary, depending on the nature of individual experiences in early life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe implications of this are many, including environmental influences on mental health, the role of education, the significance of poverty, and the impact of social settings,\u201d says Cristina Alberini, a professor in New York University\u2019s Center for Neural Science and the senior author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-14461-3.pdf?proof=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paper<\/a>, which appears in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese results also offer promise for potential therapeutic interventions,\u201d add Alberini and Benjamin Bessi\u00e8res, an NYU postdoctoral researcher and the paper\u2019s co-lead author. \u201cBy identifying critical time periods for brain development, they provide an indicator of when pharmaceutical, behavioral or other type of interventions may be most beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiences early in life have an impact on the brain\u2019s biological and functional development, shows a new study by a team of neuroscientists. Its findings, which centered on changes in mice and rats, reveal how learning and memory abilities may vary, depending on the nature of individual experiences in early life. \u201cThe implications of this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-education","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}