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Valproate supposedly increases plasticity for some skills: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24831-learning-drugs-reawaken-grown-up-brains-inner-child/ ht
by chriskanan 11y ago
Valproate supposedly increases plasticity for some skills:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24831-learning-drugs-reawaken-grown-up-brains-inner-child/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24831-learning-drugs-...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848041/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848041/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valproate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valproate
Taking acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, also may increase plasticity:
http://dana.org/Cerebrum/2012/Re-opening_Windows__Manipulating_Critical_Periods_for_Brain_Development/ http://dana.org/Cerebrum/2012/Re-opening_Windows__Manipulati...
Here is a list of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcholinesterase_inhibitor#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcholinesterase_inhibitor...
There are a few other ways to potentially increase neuroplasticity:
Blood transfusions from young people or children to old people: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v20/n6/full/nm.3569.html http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v20/n6/full/nm.3569.html
Transplanting inhibitory neurons: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731500286X http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627315...
- DanBC 11y agoMild warning about valproate: it's associated with PCOS (so only relevant to women).