Your brain's plasticity is just a question of balance

Jun 28, 2018

Belgian researcher Manuel Morrens holds a container filled with a slide of a human brain, part of a collection of more than 3,000 brains that could provide insight into psychiatric diseases, at the psychiatric hospital in Duffel, Belgium, July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman - RC1CAD36E300

MIT scientists have discovered the key component of brain plasticity. Image: REUTERS/Yves Herman - RC1CAD36E300

David Orenstein

Science News Officer, Brown University

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This image of a dendrite — a branch of a neuron — and its spines was reconstructed with electron microscopy (foreground) after it was imaged with two-photon microscopy in an intact brain (background). Image: Sur Lab

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