John Hewitt, director of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at CU-Boulder, says the study's results suggest "that I have to some extent been wrong" about the the development of IQ in children. John ...

Psychedelic drugs reopen critical windows of brain development and learning in adult mice. During these “critical periods”, the brain is highly plastic and capable of learning specific skills such as ...

Neuroscientists have long searched for ways to reopen "critical periods" in the brain, when mammals are more sensitive to signals from their surroundings that can influence periods of brain ...

Results from a recent study led by Johns Hopkins University scientists show evidence of psychedelics’ potential to reopen “critical periods” in mammals’ brains, and consequently, their ability to ...