Researchers have discovered a new way that brain plasticity is controlled in early life, offering insight into the ...

It appears that new cells compete to ‘win’ synapse connections away from old cells, which promotes network plasticity. Linda Overstreet-Wadiche, Ph.D. One goal in neurobiology is to understand how the ...

Summary: A developmental neurobiology breakthrough uncovered a previously unmapped molecular pathway that regulates brain ...

The brain is known to develop gradually throughout the human lifespan, following a hierarchical pattern. First, it adapts to support basic functions, such as movement and sensory perception, then it ...

Can psychedelics help our minds and brains stay healthy as we grow older? That’s the question posed by a study launched ...

For decades, textbooks told students the human brain held roughly 100 billion neurons and that glial cells outnumbered them ...

In December of 1993, former World Boxing Champion John Famechon (who had sustained severe incapacitating brain injuries in August 1991) began a new, complex multi-movement therapy and rehabilitation ...