McGill University researchers found training your brain in a specific, targeted, computerized way can produce important ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When it comes to defining neuroplasticity, there’s a little quiz that neuroscientist Sandra Bond Chapman, ...

Mora Leeb was 9 months old when surgeons removed half her brain. Now 15, she plays soccer and tells jokes. Scientists say Mora is an extreme example of brain plasticity, the process that allows a ...

For over a decade, neuroscientists have been trying to figure out how neurogenesis (the birth of new neurons) and neuroplasticity (the malleability of neural circuits) work together to reshape how we ...