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

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 ...

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

In a paper published in Progress in Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine neuroscientists described compelling new evidence of a critical neuroplasticity period in the frontal ...

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.

Your brain is constantly changing itself. With each passing moment, your billions of neurons change the number and strength of their trillions of connections. Beyond these fascinating changes, our ...