For instance, it seem like the visual cortex of people who lost their sight is being used extensively for the sense of touch-this ability of the brain to gain new functions or to rewire itself isa part of its neural plasticity.
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Neural plasticity consists simply in the fact that different areas of the brain can, and often do, take over the functions of other parts which have been damaged as the result of traumatic injury, pathology, natural biological development and other processes.
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By combining an account of neural plasticity, group selection, and niche construction, Sterelny shows how much of the data on which nativist accounts rely can be accounted for without attributing a large number of genetically hardwired modules to the mind / brain.
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In 1997 Woolf moved to Boston and assumed the Richard J . Kitz Chair of Anesthesia Research at Harvard Medical School and became Director of the Neural Plasticity Research Group in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH ).
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As our understanding of neuroscience evolves, neuro-ophthalmologists are becoming increasingly better at treatment, rather than only neural plasticity and regenerative medicine in the central nervous system, an area of neuroscience that has a promising future and is intimately intertwined with neuro-ophthalmology.
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By using an exoskeleton with a proportional myoelectric controller, scientists can use a non-invasive means of studying the neural plasticity associated with modifying a muscle's force ( biological + /-artificial force ), as well as how motor memories for locomotor control are formed.
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Chemically it is a tricyclic antidepressant ( TCA ), but it has different pharmacological properties than typical TCAs as recent research suggests that tianeptine produces its antidepressant effects through indirect alteration of glutamate receptor activity ( i . e ., s and s ) and release of, in turn affecting neural plasticity.
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His current interests are cognitive neuroscience of attention and consciousness with special emphasis on EEG and MEG studies of neuronal synchronization; information transfer between brain regions underlying cognition; psychophysics, biophysics and general theory of stochastic resonance; computational studies of neuronal oscillations and synchronization; neural plasticity; nonlinear dynamical systems theory and its applications in cognitive neuroscience.
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Addiction exacts a high toll on individuals and society as a whole through the direct adverse effects of drugs, associated healthcare costs, long-term complications ( e . g ., lung cancer with smoking tobacco, liver cirrhosis with drinking alcohol, or meth mouth from intravenous methamphetamine ), the functional consequences of altered neural plasticity in the brain, and the consequent loss of productivity.
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The theory proposes that all our semantic knowledge and our procedural knowledge ( skills ) are stored in a form of the " fast learning " mechanisms at the level of " anapoiesis ", and that these fast adaptive mechanisms have been acquired ( or poietically created ) over individual's lifetime through interaction with the environment and expression of genes, i . e ., by neural plasticity.
