Latest / The Observable Unknown
Interlude XIV - Epigenetic Neuroplasticity: Life Writing the Brain
What if memory is not only electrical - but molecular?
In this new interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores how experience, stress, and nurture inscribe themselves directly into the genome of the brain. Through the pioneering studies of Michael Meaney and Moshe Szyf, we learn that the nervous system is not a fixed circuit but a living manuscript - continuously edited by love, fear, and time.
From the first experiments at McGill University in the early 2000s that revealed maternal care could alter gene methylation in the hippocampus, to the recent findings that environmental enrichment can…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.