Topic “Brain development”

A UCLA study finding that older adults with little Internet experience were able to trigger key brain centers that control decision-making and complex reasoning after just one week of surfing the Web was covered Oct.

You can teach an old dog new tricks, say UCLA scientists who found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet experience were able to trigger key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning after just one week of surfing the Web.   The findings, presented Oct.

Nature News published an Oct. 14 feature on Dr. Alcino Silva, professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute, and his research in mice aiming to enhance how the brain works.