Dr. Gina Turrigiano is the Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science in the Biology Department at Brandeis University, where she heads the Turrigiano Lab.

A new study reveals that the thalamus, long overshadowed by the cortex and hippocampus, plays a crucial role in shaping and ...

This underscores its crucial role in brain plasticity and the reorganization of tactile information. These findings could provide a better understanding of how the brain of a person born without a ...

Moving plasticity research from the lab to the clinic Lastly, Dr. Pe'er highlighted a third collaboration—this time with ...

Synaptic plasticity is the basis of information storage in the brain. Two of the most studied forms of plasticity, long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD), involve both ...

Neuronal plasticity is a fundamental process in neuronal development and recovery from brain disorders. The Trophin lab focuses on the role of neurotrophic factors, particularly Brain-Derived ...

A t the "Ideas of India" summit, Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey shared her insights on the human brain, specifically focusing on its ...