A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience

Researchers identified a long-timescale plasticity mechanism that rewires neural circuits after a single salient experience — beyond classical Hebbian 'fire together, wire together' learning. Lead with the timescale leap: minutes-to-hours synaptic change can't explain memory consolidation across days, and this fills that gap. Useful for the reader's mental model of how learning, trauma, and habit actually encode.