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Researchers Identify Protein Necessary For Behavioral Flexibility

May 28, 2012 by

Researchers have identified a protein necessary to maintain behavioral flexibility, which allows us to modify our behaviors to adjust to circumstances that are similar, but not identical, to previous experiences. Their findings, which appear in the journal Cell Reports, may offer new insights into addressing autism and schizophrenia - afflictions marked by impaired behavioral flexibility...

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