Sentences with phrase «structural brain plasticity»
Playing Super Mario induces structural brain plasticity: gray matter changes resulting from training with a commercial video game.
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Kuhn S, Gleich T, Lorenz RC, Lindenberger U, Gallinat J. Playing Super Mario induces structural brain plasticity: gray matter changes resulting from training with a commercial video game.
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The study, «Brain structural plasticity with spaceflight,» appeared in the journal Nature Microgravity.
«It's very likely that the structural plasticity of the brain is the basis for long - term memory formation,» says Markus Butz, who has been working at the recently established Simulation Laboratory Neuroscience at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre for the past few months.
He is one of the world's leading researchers on synaptic plasticity in the brain and has pioneered new optical methods of observing the structural changes in the living brain as it adapts to its environment.
Such structural changes confirm the brain's plasticity (ability to change as a result of behavior or other external factors), though further research is needed.
While the brain is most malleable in early childhood, it nonetheless retains a substantial degree of plasticity throughout the lifespan, and the extent to which the timing and duration of socioeconomic disadvantage are associated with brain structural differences is virtually unexplored in the neuroscience literature to date.