{"id":29525,"date":"2016-08-30T19:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-reprogram-brain-with-a-beam-of-light-human-brain-is-plastic-not-hardwired"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:43:42","slug":"scientists-reprogram-brain-with-a-beam-of-light-human-brain-is-plastic-not-hardwired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-reprogram-brain-with-a-beam-of-light-human-brain-is-plastic-not-hardwired","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Reprogram Brain With a Beam of Light \u2013\u201cHuman Brain is Plastic, Not Hardwired\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reprogram-brain-with-a-beam-of-light-human-brain-is-plastic-not-hardwired2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neurons that fire together wire together, say scientists at Columbia University, suggesting that the three-pound computer in our heads may be more malleable than we think. Their findings suggest that groups of activated neurons may form the basic building blocks of learning and memory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2016\/08\/scientists-reprogram-brain-with-a-beam-of-light-human-brain-is-plastic-not-hardwired.html\">http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2016\/08\/scientists-repr...wired.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neurons that fire together wire together, say scientists at Columbia University, suggesting that the three-pound computer in our heads may be more malleable than we think. Their findings suggest that groups of activated neurons may form the basic building blocks of learning and memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29525","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49956,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29525\/revisions\/49956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}