In a recent study published in the journal Neuropharmacology, researchers in Pisa, Italy, explored how gut microbiota can influence neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the ability of neuronal circuits ...

About a decade ago, neuroscientists at the University College London published some fascinating research on the brain size and structure of London taxi drivers. In short: the cabbies’ brains were ...

If the award-winning 1967 movie The Graduate were remade today, the film’s memorable word would need to switch from "plastics" to "plasticity," to mark the present as well as the future.

Your brain is constantly changing itself. With each passing moment, your billions of neurons change the number and strength of their trillions of connections. Beyond these fascinating changes, our ...

In the last hundred years, we’ve seen incredible scientific advances in our treatment of disease. Unfortunately, mental health conditions including depression remain major causes of disability around ...