CAUGHT IN THE ACT 🧠: In the 1960s, scientists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel discovered that young brains can rewire themselves to favor the working eye if the other eye’s vision is blocked. They won the Nobel Prize for discovering this "ocular dominance" plasticity in 1981.
38 years later, UCSF scientists in the Stryker lab have finally caught this phenomenon in action — using 2-photon microscopes to observe brain circuits rewire themselves to adapt to changing sensory input. This work may help us understand how brain circuits form memories and what goes wrong in neurological diseases.
