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Synaptic plasticity—the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning—is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct impact on ...

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A study of U.S. veterans found that their episodic visual memory, motor learning, and sustained visual attention improved ...