Memory Makes The Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains

Memory Makes The Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains

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Hansel, Christian (The Univ Of Chicago, Usa)
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
EAN: 9789811228803
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The development of the young brain after birth and the emergence of cognitive capacities, mind, and individuality rest on the maturation of a dense net of synaptic connections between neurons. Memory Makes the Brain describes the dramatic, competitive elimination of surplus synapses that occur in the young, maturing brain — in a process called synaptic pruning that was discovered by pediatric neurologist Peter Huttenlocher in the 1970's at the University of Chicago. Explaining similarities between developmental pruning and learning processes in the adult brain, neurobiologist Christian Hansel offers a unique perspective on brain adaptation and plasticity throughout lifetime, at times weaving in personal accounts and memories. The cellular plasticity machinery that enables learning is known to be affected in brain developmental disorders such as autism. Memory Makes the Brain explains how both maturation and adult synaptic plasticity are deregulated in autism, and how we begin to trace back autism-typical behavioral abnormalities to such synaptopathies.
EAN 9789811228803
ISBN 9811228809
Binding Hardback
Publisher World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Publication date January 19, 2021
Pages 192
Language English
Dimensions 158 x 236 x 20
Country Singapore
Readership General
Authors Hansel, Christian (The Univ Of Chicago, Usa)