Learning alters the brain (cells)

How could it be otherwise?

Shernaz Bamji and Stefano Brigidi uncovered how brain cells change during learning and memories by identifying molecular change that are responsible for the cellular changes. Learning “stimulates our brain cells in a manner that causes a small fatty acid to attach to delta-catenin, a protein in the brain. This biochemical modification is essential in producing the changes in brain cell connectivity associated with learning.” The details of this research are published in a March 2014 issue of Nature Neuroscience.