Experiences reshape brain cell connections, synapse mapping reveals

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Experiences and changes in the environment cause widespread alterations in connections between brain cells, influencing brain activity, research suggests. Using a novel technology to map and study billions of individual brain cell connections, scientists have found that mice exposed to an enriched environment showed changes in different populations of synapses—the connections through which nerve…

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