How musical training shapes the adult brain: Predispositions and neuroplasticity

AM Olszewska, M Gaca, AM Herman… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Learning to play a musical instrument is a complex task that integrates multiple sensory
modalities and higher-order cognitive functions. Therefore, musical training is considered a …

Tutorial: a guide to diffusion MRI and structural connectomics

I Shamir, Y Assaf - Nature Protocols, 2024 - nature.com
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a versatile imaging technique that has
gained popularity thanks to its sensitive ability to measure displacement of water molecules …

Rapid neuroplasticity changes and response to intravenous ketamine: a randomized controlled trial in treatment-resistant depression

J Kopelman, TA Keller, B Panny, A Griffo… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Intravenous ketamine is posited to rapidly reverse depression by rapidly enhancing
neuroplasticity. In human patients, we quantified gray matter microstructural changes on a …

Mask exposure during COVID-19 changes emotional face processing

EM Barrick, MA Thornton, DI Tamir - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Faces are one of the key ways that we obtain social information about others. They allow
people to identify individuals, understand conversational cues, and make judgements about …

Rapid hippocampal plasticity supports motor sequence learning

F Jacobacci, JL Armony, A Yeffal… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Recent evidence suggests that gains in performance observed while humans learn a novel
motor sequence occur during the quiet rest periods interleaved with practice (micro-offline …

Acute cycling exercise and hippocampal subfield function and microstructure in healthy older adults

DD Callow, Y Kommula, CEL Stark, JC Smith - Hippocampus, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aging is associated with deterioration in dentate gyrus (DG) and CA3, both crucial
hippocampal subfields for age susceptible memory processes such as mnemonic …

Neural manifold under plasticity in a goal driven learning behaviour

B Feulner, C Clopath - PLoS computational biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Neural activity is often low dimensional and dominated by only a few prominent neural
covariation patterns. It has been hypothesised that these covariation patterns could form the …

Neural substrates of the executive function construct, age‐related changes, and task materials in adolescents and adults: ALE meta‐analyses of 408 fMRI studies

Z Zhang, P Peng, SB Eickhoff, X Lin… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To explore the neural substrates of executive function (EF), we conducted an activation
likelihood estimation meta‐analysis of 408 functional magnetic resonance imaging studies …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing Brain Plasticity: The Therapeutic Power of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and Theta Burst Stimulation (TBS) in …

M Sharbafshaaer, G Cirillo, F Esposito, G Tedeschi… - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) methods have become exciting techniques for
altering brain activity and improving synaptic plasticity, earning recognition as valuable non …

Memory engrams in the neocortex

S Brodt, S Gais - The Neuroscientist, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
While in the past much of our knowledge about memory representations in the brain has
relied on loss-of-function studies in which whole brain regions were temporarily inactivated …