Sep 26th 2014, 00:00, by Andrew M. Clark
This month's issue of Trends in Neurosciences focuses on the mechanisms underlying the construction and refinement of neural circuits, highlighting the important role that learning and injury, in addition to normal developmental processes, play in shaping both form and function in the juvenile and mature brain. Understanding circuit development and remodeling is important for formulating a more complete picture of both normal and pathological brain function, as circuits are considered to be a fundamental computational unit within the nervous system and circuit dysfunction is increasingly seen as central to many neurological and psychiatric diseases.
