The key to understanding how brains can recover from trauma is that they are fantastically plastic – meaning our body’s supercomputer can reshape and remodel itself.
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A growing body of research points to the body’s natural cannabinoid system as the primary driver behind the runner’s high – and the mental health boost and stress relief following exercise.
Mounting research shows that going for a swim can preserve memories, reduce mood disorders and increase mental acuity in all age groups.
Neuroscience labs around the world may need to reevaluate some of their assumptions about whether what works in animals will really produce meaningful treatments for people.
The scientists behind a controversial new study were surprised by their own results. But they carefully did all they could to ‘prove a negative,’ and their neurogenesis study is shaking up the field.
Without the ability to rewire itself, the brain wouldn’t be able to grow or recover from injury.
For years, conventional wisdom held that growing older tends to be bad news for brains. Past behavioral data largely pointed to loss in cognitive – that is, thinking – abilities with age, including poorer…
Until a few years ago, it was assumed that humans were born with the maximum number of neurons that we were ever going to have. There was no chance of self-replenishment as we got older, or if we suffered…
Researchers have used the radioactive fallout from atomic bomb tests to show that new neurons are produced in one part of the human brain throughout life. Studies have shown that rats can grow new neurons…
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Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Head of Epigenetics and Neural Plasticity, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Associate Professor, Karolinska Institutet
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Professor, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
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Head of Scholarship, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University
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Post-doc in Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Assistant Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
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Alan M Dachs Professor of Science, Professor of Biology, Neuroscience and Behavior, Wesleyan University
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
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Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
