Early Fine-Tuning of Neural Connections May Turn Destructive Later in Life

Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on December 14th, 2007 at 11:12am

The immune system helps to prune excess connections between neurons in the developing brains of young mice, according to scientists funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).