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An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world ...