How a New Pill Could Help You Learn Like a Child Does
Ever long to absorb information with the facility that children display while learning? A new "smart pill" may help adults do just that.
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Ever long to absorb information with the facility that children display while learning? A new “smart pill” is in the works that may help adults do just that.
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Scientists from Stanford University say they have discovered a way to unlock a part of the brain that is responsible for assisting humans in learning new skills with the ease and wonderment that is identifiable in children.
The scientific community offers a wide variety of cures for alleviating any number of ailments, and now it appears set to provide the world with a smart pill.
Stanford Professor Carla Shatz and her colleagues, Dr. David Bochner and Richard Sapp, conducted animal experiments where they interfered with a brain protein called PirB (in humans it is called “LilrB2″) that suddenly allowed a part of the brain to become more “plastic” – similar to that of a child’s brain that stores new information at a rapid pace.
—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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