A richness that cures.

Academic Article
Publication Date:
2007
abstract:
A study in Nature by Fischer et al. shows that environmental enrichment or increasing histone acetylation rescue the ability to form new memories and re-establish access to remote memories even in the presence of brain degeneration. Chromatin remodeling may be the final gate environmental enrichment opens to enhance plasticity and represents a promising target for therapeutical intervention in neurodegenerative diseases.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; MEMORY; PLASTICITY; EXPERIENCE; CORTEX
List of contributors:
Handle:
https://iris.cnr.it/handle/20.500.14243/39389
Published in:
NEURON (CAMB. MASS.)
Journal