Sentences with phrase «brain plasticity first»

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Sensory experience is important in the first few years while the brain is in its height of plasticity.

These results are published in the first issue of Brain Plasticity, a new journal from IOS Press.

«Our research shows that combination treatment with the two compounds can promote resilience against stress - mediated depression - like phenotypes by modulating systemic inflammatory responses and brain synaptic plasticity in a mouse model of depression,» says Jun Wang, PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Neurology and first author on the paper.

«Now that we've identified a new principle for how the interneurons can control plasticity, our study is a first step in better understanding the mechanisms involved in other brain regions as well,» said Kreitzer.

Rationale We support early childhood programs because recent research in neuroscience has revealed the learning potential of very young children, the plasticity of the young brain, and the astounding mental growth that ordinarily takes place in the first few years of life.

Early intervention or additional direct instruction should begin as early as kindergarten or first grade for struggling readers when the gap is small and students benefit from brain plasticity advantages for learning language - based information.

Brain imaging of language plasticity in adopted adults: can a second language replace the first?