Summary: Researchers have shown for the first time how the connections between the brain’s nerve cells, the synapses, change over the course of life, and likely affect our processing of information.
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Changes in the entire brain (left) and hippocampus (middle) are evident in these images shot during the course of a mouse’s life. Green shows the protein PSD95 and cyan is the protein SAP102.