As our brains develop throughout our childhood and teens, they form connections and then prune back the ones that aren't used. What can we learn from them?
Guests: <a href="https://www.cmu.edu/bio/people/faculty/barth.html">Alison Barth</a>, professor in the life sciences at Carnegie Mellon University; <a href="https://www.cshl.edu/research/faculty-staff/saket-navlakha/">Saket Navlakha</a>, associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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