Monday, January 06, 2014

I Want This, and I Want It Now

Epilepsy drug turns out to help adults acquire perfect pitch and learn language like kids | The Raw Story: A team of researchers from across the globe believe they have discovered a means of re-opening “critical periods” in brain development, allowing adults to acquire abilities — such as perfect pitch or fluency in language — that could previously only be acquired early in life. 

According to the study in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, the mood-stabilizing drug valproate allows the adult brain to absorb new information as effortlessly as it did during critical windows in childhood.

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