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 ...

Your brain physically decreases in size when you are suffering from chronic pain. 1 Historically, scientists thought a person was born with a certain number of brain cells and slowly lost them over a ...

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.

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 ...