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Turrigiano asks how brains can change through experience without losing stable function.
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Her laboratory investigates homeostatic plasticity, including synaptic scaling, through which neurons adjust their excitability and activity. Research examines how these stabilizing mechanisms interact with learning-related synaptic changes during development of the neocortex. The group also studies how sleep and other behavioral states influence plasticity and firing-rate regulation. This provides a concrete neuroscience puzzle for prospective researchers: a circuit must preserve useful activity while still being flexible enough for learning and experience to reshape its connections.
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