Follow up – Samah Ismail
A new study revealed a vitamin that has a significant impact on what was described as the “softness” of the brain and its general functions. Which greatly enhances memory capacity. It helps a person to memorize and remember information.
The brain has a tremendous ability to adapt to its environment, and this ability to continuously learn, form, memorize and remember is known as “brain plasticity.”
Changes in the structure and function of synapses, the points of contact between neurons where communication occurs, are one of the most important mechanisms that play a pivotal role in brain plasticity.
In a new research published in the “eLife” scientific journal, scientists removed a human piece of the cerebral cortex prepared from neurosurgical excisions and treated it with a solution of vitamin A derivative, a comprehensive retinoic acid, for 6-10 hours.
Experiments have shown that the derivative specifically enhanced synaptic plasticity in the adult human cortex, increased dendritic spine size and enhanced its ability to transmit signals.
In addition, the scientists found that the vertebral system organelle, a structure found in some dendritic vertebrae, was a target of a vitamin A derivative and significantly enhanced synaptic plasticity.
These findings advance understanding of the pathways through which they affect the brain and may aid the development of new therapeutic strategies for brain diseases in general, and contribute to the identification of key mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in the adult human brain.
Plasticity enhances the activation of the number of connections between brain neurons and enhances the flow of information and data between them, which raises their efficiency, ability and various functions such as learning, memory, response and cognition.