This underscores its crucial role in brain plasticity and the reorganization of tactile information. These findings could provide a better understanding of how the brain of a person born without a ...

Our brains contain billions of neurons and trillions of connections, and scientists are only beginning to understand the ...

Understanding how the brain responds to fear could help treat people with phobias, PTSD, and anxiety.

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

When the human brain is starved of energy, it may start to 'eat' its own fatty tissue for fuel, according to a pilot study on ...

The Brain Prize recognizes the three scientists’ research on the molecular mechanisms behind neural plasticity: the brain’s ability ... but there will be further examples in the years ahead.” Natalia ...