The simple answer: Scary stuff activates the brain. When you encounter scary stuff, the brain kicks in—with vigor—to figure ...

“Our latest research proposal really grew out of our interactions with the blind and visually impaired community in Atlanta,” ...

Think about how much control you have over changing the health of your heart, your brain, and your teeth. What order would you put those in—meaning, which of those do you have the most control ...

Michael Merzenich, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of Soft-Wired: ...

This means we can revisit the conclusions about men’s and women’s brains: “Sex differences in the brain – are there any?” The idea of plasticity means we can escape the outmoded and old ...

An anatomically defined retinotopy atlas was applied to the inflated cortical surface for each participant in order to delineate the borders of V1, V2 and V3, and also each degree of eccentricity up ...

For example, studies have shown that exercise, cognitive and social engagement stimulate your brain and maintain its plasticity by growing new neural connections and building cognitive reserve. The ...

引言在神经科学领域，研究人员不断探索各种因素对大脑的影响，大脑如何受到外界因素的调控一直是一个充满挑战且引人入胜的研究课题。避孕药，作为一种广泛使用的药物，其对女性大脑的具体影响却长期被忽视。事实上，超过1.5亿生育年龄的女性服用避孕药，而这类药物对 ...

Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. While there have been immense breakthroughs in medicine, from the discovery of insulin in 1922 to the invention of the ...