CAMK2A and cancer: Not only is CAMK2A implicated in cognitive functions (Lee et al., 2021), neurodevelopment (Akita et al., 2018), and certain cancer types (Wang et al., 2020a; Yu et al., 2021), but a study parallel to ours also unveiled its potential to augment synaptic plasticity in MCAO mice (Shen et al., 2021).