Nudo was selected by the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke for the prestigious Javits Investigator Award in Neuroscience. He is principal investigator of a long-term National Institutes of Health-funded project to study neural mechanisms of functional recovery after stroke. Randy Nudo, PhD, Director of the Landon Center on Aging and Professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Kansas.Merzenich was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and to the Academy’s Institute of Medicine in 2009, both in recognition of his pioneering research on brain plasticity.
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Michael Merzenich, PhD, Emeritus Professor at the Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences at the University of California, San Francisco, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Posit Science, which develops brain-training software and therapies, and Director/Founder of the Brain Plasticity Institute.Bruno conducts basic research aimed at understanding how experience causes structural changes in the brain. Randy Bruno, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University.To explore these startling new findings and what they mean for the treatment of brain disorders, brain injuries, learning as an adult, and the aging brain, The Kavli Foundation brought together three experts in brain plasticity: Researchers report that new experiences can trigger major physical changes in the brain within just a few days, and that certain conditions can accelerate this physical, chemical and functional remodeling of the brain. Contrary to the common assumption that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, there is increasingly strong evidence that the adult human brain is remarkably malleable and capable of new feats even in the last decades of life, but it might need a little extra prodding to bring its plasticity into play. Recent research is beginning to answer these fundamental questions by exploring the plasticity of the adult brain-its ability to readily be shaped by experience. Why does a child tend to have a brain like a sponge, while an older adult tends to have a brain more like a sieve? What changes in our brains as we get older and how do those changes affect our ability to learn, develop new skills and abilities, and recover from brain injury?
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