For millions of adults with autism spectrum disorder, drug-resistant epilepsy, or schizophrenia, the conventional medical wisdom has been clear and dispiriting: the window for treating the brain's ...

A UAB study found that brain regions used for attention-heavy tasks develop uniquely individualized connections, revealing how experience shapes neural wiring and offering new insights into brain ...

Dr. Paul Lucassen discusses three decades of discoveries connecting early life experiences, lifestyle factors, and neurogenesis to depression and dementia risk. AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, 2 December ...

A new review in Molecular Biology Reports details how the polyphenol resveratrol may protect and enhance synaptic plasticity ...

Uncover the latest and most impactful research in Neural Stem Cell Dynamics in Adult Neurogenesis. Explore pioneering discoveries, insightful ideas and new methods from leading researchers in the ...

(Daniel Heighton/istock) The human brain is creatively malleable, producing breathtaking art such as The Starry Night (twice) and the Large Hadron Collider to reveal different sides of reality, ...

The aging brain may not be as doomed as we thought—at least for people with extraordinary memory.

Since time immemorial, the sentient self-reflective universal human condition has asked two questions: Who are we, and what are we? These two questions were then divided into two categories: the ...

For much of modern history, the brain was seen as largely fixed by the end of childhood. Intelligence, personality, and ability were believed to follow a mostly predetermined biological path.