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Building the best brain: How brain cell connections get cemented early in life

September 20, 2013 by

When we’re born, our brains aren’t very organized, but as we grow and learn, things get a bit more stable. How and why does this happen -- and what happens when it doesn’t go normally? Researchers have made a major stride in understanding this process, called synapse maturation.

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