Spontaneous Rewiring seen in 4 hrs.
It seems Markram is again back to getting some interesting results. Recently a new discovery from the Brain Mind Institute of the EPFL shows that the brain adapts to new experience by unleashing a burst of new neuronal connections, and only the fittest survive. The research further shows that this process of creation, testing, and reconfiguring of brain circuits takes place on a scale of just hours, suggesting that the brain is evolving considerably even during the course of a single day.
The paper can be found Here.
August 29th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
Presumably whoever wrote this talking about the cover of PNAS today:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/35/13214