{"id":34114,"date":"2017-02-03T23:05:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T07:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/brain-plasticity-how-adult-born-neurons-get-wired"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:47:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:47:43","slug":"brain-plasticity-how-adult-born-neurons-get-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/brain-plasticity-how-adult-born-neurons-get-wired","title":{"rendered":"Brain Plasticity: How Adult Born Neurons Get Wired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-plasticity-how-adult-born-neurons-get-wired.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Summary: Researchers report adult neurogenesis not only helps increase the number of cells in a neural network, it also promotes plasticity in the existing network. Additionally, they have identified the role the Bax gene plays in synaptic pruning.<\/p>\n<p>Source: university of alabama at birmingham.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>One goal in neurobiology is to understand how the flow of electrical signals through brain circuits gives rise to perception, action, thought, learning and memories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linda Overstreet-Wadiche, Ph.D., and Jacques Wadiche, Ph.D., both associate professors in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurobiology, have published their latest contribution in this effort, focused on a part of the brain that helps form memories \u2014 the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/neuroplasticity-neuroscience-6053\/\">http:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/neuroplasticity-neuroscience-6053\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. Summary: Researchers report adult neurogenesis not only helps increase the number of cells in a neural network, it also promotes plasticity in the existing network. Additionally, they have identified the role the Bax gene plays in synaptic pruning. Source: university of alabama at birmingham. One goal in neurobiology is to understand how the flow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65205,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114\/revisions\/65205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}