But the most exciting part is the prospect of using the plasticity of the young brain to help it recover, avoiding the toll this trauma can exact in adulthood." ...

What was of particular interest (in relation to the recovery of John Famechon) was the process of discovering what was involved in changing John’s brain and behaviour.

Normandie University researchers have identified critical links between the brain's inhibitory memory control mechanisms and resilience to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They examined how ...

That may be about to change. A few days after Ms. McVean woke up in the Foothills Medical Center in Calgary, she was told ...

Don’t think of our most important organ as a machine doomed to break down. Mental and physical exercise can keep the brain fit and help it recover capacities lost to disease and trauma.

These results suggest that postnatal traumatic stress in males can affect brain plasticity and cognitive functions in the adult progeny, possibly through epigenetic alterations in the male germline.

Recent research conducted in mice suggests that daydreaming may help boost brain plasticity and improve memory consolidation.

The basic structure of the brain is established before birth by your genes. But its continued development relies heavily on a process called developmental plasticity, where developmental processes ...