The brain is made up of distinct regions, each responsible for different functions. Keeping these areas healthy is essential ...

Your brain is constantly evolving. Throughout your life, it reshapes, adjusts, and grows stronger in response to learning, new experiences, and your habits. This amazing shape-shifting ability is ...

The science of self-worth, the power of neuroplasticity, and 10 practical steps to help you uproot old patterns and embrace ...

Oscar winners Julianne Moore, who portrayed a woman battling early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and Eddie Redmayne, who played Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...

When it comes to defining neuroplasticity, there’s a little quiz that neuroscientist Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D., likes to pose. Think about how much control you have over changing the health of your ...

The brain's ability to adapt and form new neural connections allows it to recover from injury and maintain cognitive function into old age. Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to adapt and ...

Parkinson's disease patients take part in a special yoga class.(Mariano Cuajao; Flickr.com/CC/by-nc-nd/2.0 ) Dr Norman Doidge has travelled the world meeting people ...

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 ...

Young minds are easily molded. Each new experience rewires a child's brain circuitry, adding and removing synaptic ...