Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A longitudinal study quantifying neuroplasticity in the ipsilesional and contralesional human motor cortex ...

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 ...

Neuroplasticity, or brain plasticity, can be defined as the ability of the nervous system to alter its activity in response to a stimulus by reorganizing its structure, function, and neuronal ...

The human brain generates up to 700 new neurons per day in the hippocampus alone, which raises the question: Can this capacity be intentionally enhanced? Neuroplasticity is no longer just a recovery ...

My patient, Derek,* is a high-achiever. Like many high achieving individuals, he struggles under the weight of his own high expectations. He assumes that being harsh toward himself and always ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gastrointestinal infection and inflammation are key risk factors for the development of numerous clinical gastrointestinal disorders that present with symptoms such as altered motility or secretion, ...

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 ...