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For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

A one-week mind-body retreat led to consistent changes in the brain and at the molecular level that were associated with ...

While probing the escape reflex in the fruit fly Drosophila, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) and the ...

Groundbreaking neurobiologist, Dr. Gina Turrigiano heads up the Turrigiano Lab in Brandeis University’s Biology Department. Dr. Turrigiano’s work focuses on brain plasticity. Our conversation covered ...

The brain, much like muscles, strengthens through challenge and rest. Neuroplasticity allows adult brains to form new ...

A new study from Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct transmission sites - not a shared site - to achieve different types of ...

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Researchers are testing a new approach to repair early memory loss by protecting brain connections affected in Alzheimer’s ...