University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Cambridge University Biological Society > The plastic brain

  Browse A-Z

Log in

Googledetails Microsoftdetails

🔐 Log In

Information on

Subscribing to talksdetails Finding a talkdetails Adding a talkdetails Disseminating talksdetails Help and Documentationdetails

ℹ️ Information

The plastic brain

Download to your calendar using vCal

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Karyn Megy .

The past 40 years have seen a radical change in understanding of the brain. Although its fundamental characteristics are determined genetically, its organization is now known to be ‘plastic’ – changing in response to activity passing through neuronal networks. The best-known examples of such plasticity are in sensory areas of the cerebral cortex, during early postnatal ‘sensitive periods’. But the cortex retains other forms of plasticity throughout life. The ‘mapping’ of sensory and motor areas can change rapidly in response to changes of input, local damage and learning. And the cortex can reorganize itself on a massive scale, after stroke or after the onset of blindness. There has been progress in defining the molecular mechanisms underlying some forms of plasticity, but much remains to be learned about adult brain plasticity and whether it can be harnessed to help the brain repair itself after damage or disease.

About the speaker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Blakemore

This talk is part of the Cambridge University Biological Society series.

This talk is included in these lists:

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.

Other lists

Gatsby Room Rhubarb Hour MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC)

Other talks

Title TBC The United States of America at 250: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Independence Rothschild Public Lecture: Forty years of causal inference: Report of a great-grandfather Title to be confirmed Talk title TBC Title to be confirmed
 

© 2006-2025 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity