Another assumption busted: the brain continues to change from early-adulthood to mid-adulthood.
Whilst the changes that occur in our brains during childhood, adolescence and old age have been well documented, it has been assumed that brain structure is relatively stable from early-adulthood through to mid-adulthood. However, research from China published in Frontiers In Neuroscience has found microstructural changes in the brain that are correlated with age. Scientists analysed a series of brain scans from 111 participants aged 18-55 years. The brain scans employed a fo
Nerve cells may not release neurotransmitter the way we once thought.
Neurons communicate with each other, for the most part, via a tiny gap called a synapse. Simply put, when a nerve impulse reaches the end of a nerve cell, neurotransmitter molecules are released into the synapse from synaptic vesicles - little storage sacs in which they are temporarily housed. Neurotransmitters such as dopamine move, or diffuse, across the synapse, exciting or inhibiting the post-synaptic nerve cell. Most neuroscientists are of the view that a specific amount
