Optical Device to Reveal Adult Brain Plasticity
HOUSTON, April 30, 2007 -- It may be easy to change your mind, but your brain? Using a new optical imaging device that quickly maps the visual cortex, researchers hope to reveal how "plastic" or adjustable, adult brains really are.
Valery Kalatsky, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, is collaborating with Hubert Dinse, a cognitive neurobiology professor with Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, to predict the extent of recovery...