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Controlling Parkinson's Disease With Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation
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2014
Adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) is effective for Parkinson’s disease, improving symptoms and reducing power consumption compared to conventional deep brain stimulation (cDBS). In aDBS we track a local field potential biomarker (beta oscillatory amplitude) in real time and use this to control the timing of stimulation.
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Blood-Brain Tumor Barrier or BBTB Model: An Adaption of the Blood-Brain Barrier or BBB Model to Evaluate Delivery of Therapeutics to the Tumor
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2023
In this video, we describe a comprehensive protocol to establish an in vitro model mimicking the blood-brain tumor barrier. The model holds promise to understand the delivery of therapeutic agents for the treatment of brain tumors.
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Neuronal Adaptation to Repetitive Hypoxic Preconditioning in Mice
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2025
Source: Poinsatte, K., et al., Quantification of Neurovascular Protection Following Repetitive Hypoxic Preconditioning and Transient Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion in Mice. J. Vis. Exp. (2015)This video demonstrates the method of repetitive hypoxic preconditioning (RHP) by exposing a mouse to controlled hypoxia cycles before inducing an ischemic stroke. The experiment evaluates its effects on blood-brain barrier stability, neuronal adaptation, and inflammation.
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Adaptation of a Haptic Robot in a 3T fMRI
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2011
The adaptation and use of a haptic robot in a 3T fMRI is described.
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A Molecular Readout of Long-term Olfactory Adaptation in C. elegans
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2012
Here we describe a molecular readout of long-term olfactory adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans. The Protein Kinase G, EGL-4, is necessary for stable adaptation responses in the primary sensory neuron pair called AWC. During prolonged odor exposure EGL-4 translocates from the cytosol to nucleus of the AWC.
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Experience, learning, development, and injury can alter neural connectivity and activity, allowing the nervous system to respond to changing demands. At the connection level, adaptation may include strengthening some synapses, weakening others, forming new synapses, or eliminating existing ones. These changes help explain why acquired skills, behavioral responses, and recovery patterns can change over time.
Synaptic strengthening and weakening provide a mechanism through which experience can influence later brain responses. Connections that become stronger may support repeated or learned patterns, while weakened connections may reduce the influence of other patterns. In psychology, this process helps connect changes in neural activity with learning, skill acquisition, behavioral adjustment, and responses to changing environments.
Brain regions can reorganize their activity when changing demands or neurological damage affect how functions are supported. This reorganization provides a basis for altered responses and, in some cases, recovery of functions after injury. Studying these shifts helps psychologists examine how neural systems contribute to adjustment rather than treating brain function as permanently fixed.
In education and skill acquisition, Brain Adaptation provides a framework for understanding how learning can change neural connections and activity. As people acquire skills, the nervous system may strengthen or weaken synapses and adjust regional activity in response to new demands. This perspective supports psychological research on how learning produces changes in cognition and behavior.
Rehabilitation draws on the possibility that neural connections and regional activity can change after neurological damage. Research on Brain Adaptation helps explain how function may be reorganized and how responses can change during recovery. Its relevance lies in connecting neural change with psychological outcomes, including the restoration or adjustment of abilities affected by injury.
Brain Adaptation helps mental health research examine how people adjust to stressful environments and how cognitive or behavioral patterns may change. By linking experience with changes in neural connections and activity, this perspective informs interventions intended to support psychological change. It also emphasizes that adaptation can remain relevant across development and the lifespan.