The way we react to things and control our overall mood and behaviors have long been a topic of interest for many psychologists and neurologists. Hundreds have dedicated their lives to gaining more ...

Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

The brain's ability to adapt and form new neural connections allows it to recover from injury and maintain cognitive function into old age. Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to adapt and ...

For most of the 20th century, the scientific consensus held that the adult brain was essentially fixed, unable to grow new ...

About a decade ago, neuroscientists at the University College London published some fascinating research on the brain size and structure of London taxi drivers. In short: the cabbies’ brains were ...

If the award-winning 1967 movie The Graduate were remade today, the film’s memorable word would need to switch from "plastics" to "plasticity," to mark the present as well as the future.

The human brain generates up to 700 new neurons per day in the hippocampus alone, which raises the question: Can this capacity be intentionally enhanced? Neuroplasticity is no longer just a recovery ...