Scrapping excessive neural connection helps build new connections

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 10:01 in Biology & Nature

Neural activity that retracts excessive early innervation in a certain pathway helps make late neural connections in a different pathway, research has found. This may provide a self-organizing mechanism of neural connections, and additionally, early excessive innervation may serve as a guide for making late neural connections.

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