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Cortical Plasticity
One of the toughest vocational exams in the world requires candidates to memorize 25,000 streets in an area five times the size of Manhattan.
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
Exercise can have surprisingly transformative impacts on the brain, according to neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. It has the power not only to boost mood and focus due to an increase in […]
A new study from Finland suggests that we all process the behavior of others using the same neural networks.
This was largely a philosophical question until 2005, when a surgical team in France performed the first partial face transplant.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.
Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
The researchers and patients are excited to see if color vision will develop over time.
Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.
Choking under pressure seems to have deep evolutionary roots.
Stress – and how you manage it – is catching.