Nurturing brain plasticity: impact of environmental enrichment

Brain Plasticity and Neurorestoration by Environmental Enrichment

Successful brain aging: plasticity, environmental enrichment, and lifestyle

Aging is a physiological process that can develop without the appearance of concurrent diseases. However, very frequently, older people suffer from memory loss and an accelerated cognitive decline. Studies of the neurobiology of aging are beginning to decipher the mechanisms underlying not only the physiology of aging of the brain but also the mechanisms that make people more vulnerable to cogn...

Environmental enrichment and the brain.

’ Division of Geriatric Medicine, NEUROTEC, Karolinska Institute& S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden 2 Division of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, S-I 71 77 Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA 4 Deparmtent of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrensko University Hospital, G...

[Changes in structural and functional plasticity of the brain induced by environmental enrichment].

The review contains current data on structural and functional brain plasticity mechanisms under the enriched environment. Enriched environment contains social and non-social stimuli acting on different aspects of the development and functioning of the brain. Special attention is devoted to the modeling of enriched environment in the experiment. Enriched environment implies the action of social ...

Neuronal plasticity and dendritic spines: effect of environmental enrichment on intact and postischemic rat brain.

The authors compared the influence of environmental enrichment on intact and lesioned brain, and tested the hypothesis that postischemic exposure to an enriched environment can alter dendritic spine density in pyramidal neurons contralateral to a cortical infarct. The middle cerebral artery was occluded distal to the striatal branches in spontaneously hypertensive rats postoperatively housed ei...