{"id":8770,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/plasticity_-neural\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:19","slug":"plasticity_-neural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/plasticity_-neural\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasticity (neural)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The property of the brain to reorganize itself after damage or in response to any developmental variation. &nbsp;It is a continuous process, especially during development, that results in short-term, medium-term and long-term remodelling in terms of both in the form and function of neurons and neural networks. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"axon_retraction_-or_pruning-\">Axon retraction (or pruning)<\/a>, <a href=\"brain_sparing\">Brain sparing<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_plasticity\">Developmental plasticity<\/a>, <a href=\"equipotentiality\">Equipotentiality<\/a>, <a href=\"hebbian_synapse\">Hebbian synapse<\/a>, <a href=\"neurotransmitters\">Neurotransmitters<\/a>, <a href=\"notch\">Notch<\/a>, <a href=\"parallel_fibers\">Parallel fibers<\/a>, <a href=\"plasticity_-experiential-\">Plasticity (experiential)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The property of the brain to reorganize itself after damage or in response to any developmental variation. &nbsp;It is a continuous process, especially during development, that results in short-term, medium-term and long-term remodelling in terms of both in the form and function of neurons and neural networks. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; See Axon retraction (or pruning), Brain &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/plasticity_-neural\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plasticity (neural)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}