According to a new mouse study, antibiotics that are strong enough to kill gut bacteria can also halt the growth of hippocampal neurons. Read More
Exercise may enhance brain plasticity, a new study reports. Read More
A new study challenges conventional beliefs about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Researchers discovered no differences in microglia activity in the brains of health mice and those exposed to alcohol during early development. The study brings into question the whether the brain's immune system cells are to blame for the neurological damage that occurs as a result of fetal alcohol exposure. Read More
Study identifies neurons in command of guiding adaptive behaviors. Read More
A new study reports on how a single instance of extreme stress can lead to long term neurological changes and trauma. Read More
Older people retain the mental flexibility needed to learn visual perception tasks, but are not as good as filtering out irrelevant information as younger people, a new study reports. Read More
Dropping the level of the IL-33 immune molecule increased the number of synapses in the brain. In older mice, ramping up IL-33 helped push the number of new synapses toward a more youthful state. Read More
Researchers discover neurons have a special preassembly technique to speed up the manufacture of proteins at synapses, enabling synaptic plasticity and the brain to rapidly form memories. Read More
Researchers demonstrate brain plasticity also comes from activity dependent changes in oligodendrocyte precursor cell proliferation and myelin. Read More
The visual cortex continues to develop into our 40s, a new study reports. Read More
Researchers create new and specific memories by directly manipulating brain cells in the cerebral cortex of rodents. Read More
A new study reports that in blind children, a region of the brain that normally involved in visual processing can be remodeled to process language. Read More
