{"id":99354,"date":"2019-12-05T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/mice-were-kept-in-the-dark-for-one-week-their-brain-cell-networks-rewired-and-hearing-sensitivity-changed"},"modified":"2019-12-05T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:03:56","slug":"mice-were-kept-in-the-dark-for-one-week-their-brain-cell-networks-rewired-and-hearing-sensitivity-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/mice-were-kept-in-the-dark-for-one-week-their-brain-cell-networks-rewired-and-hearing-sensitivity-changed","title":{"rendered":"Mice Were Kept in the Dark for One Week \u2013 Their Brain Cell Networks Rewired and Hearing Sensitivity Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mice-were-kept-in-the-dark-for-one-week-their-brain-cell-networks-rewired-and-hearing-sensitivity-changed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Maryland researchers showed sight deprivation changes how groups of neurons work together and alters their sensitivity to different frequencies.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have known that depriving adult mice of vision can increase the sensitivity of individual neurons in the part of the brain devoted to hearing. New research from biologists at the University of Maryland revealed that sight deprivation also changes the way brain cells interact with one another, altering neuronal networks and shifting the mice\u2019s sensitivity to different frequencies. The research was published in the November 19, 2019 issue of the journal eNeuro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Maryland researchers showed sight deprivation changes how groups of neurons work together and alters their sensitivity to different frequencies. Scientists have known that depriving adult mice of vision can increase the sensitivity of individual neurons in the part of the brain devoted to hearing. New research from biologists at the University of Maryland [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99354","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}