Your brain doesn t just send messages through one universal route it uses separate pathways for spontaneous activity and signals linked to learning. These findings overturn a major neuroscience ...
Our brains do not react in a fixed, mechanical way like electronic circuits. Even if we see the same scene every day on our commute to work, what we feel—and whether it leaves a lasting ...
Neuroplasticity, or brain plasticity, can be defined as the ability of the nervous system to alter its activity in response to a stimulus by reorganizing its structure, function, and neuronal ...
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 study by Professor Carlos Matute of the EHU reinforces a paradigm shift in neuroscience: Myelin goes from being a structural element to being an active component of brain function. Published in ...
A study in mice by a Harvard Medical School (HMS)-led research team has reported new insights into what is happening in the brain while we daydream. The study, through which the researchers tracked ...
The first-line pharmacological treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD) are antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs). But a significant proportion of people ...
Every experience we have changes our brain, the way a ceramicist reshapes a slab of clay. Every corner we turn, every conversation we have, every shudder we feel causes cascading effects: Chemicals ...