Deceased in 2017, Marian Diamond deserves to be in the Olympus of Neuroscience for her pioneering work on brain plasticity. She, along with three colleagues, published in 1964 the first study to demonstrate brain plasticity in adult mammals. Before these works it was thought that the brain was a structure that did not change throughout adult life. In this work done with rats, they placed the animals in front of very few or many external stimuli, and it was seen that the brain was different depending on where those animals had lived: the environment, the experience, modified the brain.
Despite the importance of this discovery, Marian's fame did not come until 1985 when she studied part of Albert Einstein's preserved brain and saw that glial cells were abnormally abundant in specific areas, which are a type of nerve cell that was not then it was given a lot of importance. In addition, she was a great teacher who did not retire until she was 87 years old from teaching and research.
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Created, directed and presented by Pablo Barrecheguren (@pjbarrecheguren), Neuropíldoras (2018) is a scientific dissemination project made by Big Van Ciencia in collaboration with Muy Interesante and carried out with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology – Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FECYT).
