From the INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) press release: Astrocytes are cells in the brain which have long been considered only as mere support… Read more »
From the University of Rochester Medical Center press release: The brain’s complex network of neurons enables us to interpret and effortlessly navigate and interact with the world around us. But… Read more »
From the IOS Press press release: In a new review of the effects of acute exercise published in Brain Plasticity, researchers not only summarize the behavioral and cognitive effects of… Read more »
From the Frontiers media release: The after-effects of a stroke can be life changing. Paralysis, speech problems and memory loss occur in varying degrees of severity, depending on the location… Read more »
From the University of Oregon press release via EurekAlert!: An eight-week intervention involving 141 preschoolers in a Head Start program and their parents produced significant improvements in the children’s behavior… Read more »
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release via MedicalXpress: Locating a car that’s blowing its horn in heavy traffic, channel-hopping between football and a thriller on TV without losing the plot, and… Read more »
From the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum press release via AlphaGalileo: The reason why some people are worse at learning than others has been revealed by a research team from Berlin, Bochum, and Leipzig,… Read more »
From the McGill University press release via ScienceDaily: Our ability to learn and form new memories is fully dependent on the brain’s ability to be plastic — that is to… Read more »
From the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum press release via ScienceDaily: The channel protein Pannexin1 keeps nerve cells flexible and thus the brain receptive for new knowledge. Together with colleagues from Canada and the… Read more »
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: While in deep dreamless sleep, our hippocampus sends messages to our cortex and changes its plasticity, possibly transferring recently acquired knowledge to long-term memory. But… Read more »
