{"id":156245,"date":"2023-01-25T19:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T01:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/surprising-discovery-mit-neuroscientists-find-that-adult-brain-is-filled-with-millions-of-silent-synapses"},"modified":"2023-01-25T19:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T01:25:03","slug":"surprising-discovery-mit-neuroscientists-find-that-adult-brain-is-filled-with-millions-of-silent-synapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/surprising-discovery-mit-neuroscientists-find-that-adult-brain-is-filled-with-millions-of-silent-synapses","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Discovery: MIT Neuroscientists Find That Adult Brain Is Filled With Millions of \u201cSilent Synapses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprising-discovery-mit-neuroscientists-find-that-adult-brain-is-filled-with-millions-of-silent-synapses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/mit\/>MIT<\/a> neuroscientists have found that the adult brain is filled with millions of \u201csilent synapses\u201d \u2014 immature connections between neurons that are not active until they are needed to help create new memories.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously believed that silent synapses only existed during early development, playing a role in helping the brain learn new information encountered in early life. However, the new MIT<\/p>\n<p>MIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded in 1861. It is organized into five Schools: architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science. MIT\u2019s impact includes many scientific breakthroughs and technological advances. Their stated goal is to make a better world through education, research, and innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT neuroscientists have found that the adult brain is filled with millions of \u201csilent synapses\u201d \u2014 immature connections between neurons that are not active until they are needed to help create new memories. It was previously believed that silent synapses only existed during early development, playing a role in helping the brain learn new information [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156245","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}