FARO Academy

The circuitry of the human brain includes a trillion neurons and a quadrillion synapses and its connectivity underlies all human perception, thought, emotion, and behavior. During the past years, studies in various species have illustrated that the overall structure of the nervous system is genetically hard-wired but that neural circuits undergo extensive sculpting and rewiring in response to a variety of stimuli. The process of experience-dependent changes in synaptic connectivity is named synaptic plasticity. The hypothesis synaptic plasticity and memory (SPM) is not identified with any one individual scientist. It is an idea that has come forward in various guises over the years.