Neuromodulation of Circuit Plasticity: From Adaptive Behavior to Precision Therapeutics
Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT
Abstract
Kuan Hong Wang examines how dopaminergic, cannabinoid, and neuroimmune signaling regulate circuit plasticity across development, experience, and disease, and how cross-species work may inform selective therapies.
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