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Psychedelic drugs may reopen critical learning periods in the brain

New ScientistNov-17-2022, 20:45:08 GMT

Psychedelic drugs have been used in adult mice to reopen so-called "critical periods", which are crucial windows of development and learning in the brain that usually happen in adolescence. During critical periods, the brain is highly plastic and capable of learning specific skills such as language. Once this window closes, it's nearly impossible to acquire certain abilities. For instance, children who aren't exposed to language in their first year of life may never fully grasp sentence structure.

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