You’ve likely heard that the brain isn’t fully developed until someone’s around 26 years old. But did you know that the brain rewires itself throughout the lifetime? University of Cambridge ...

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Is Your Morning Coffee Rewiring Your Brain? Let's be real — most of us don't reach for that first cup of coffee in the ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended the decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or ...

A Tibetan Plateau study suggests the brain shifts its activity patterns as the body adjusts to low oxygen at high altitude.

Researchers have shown in mice that brain cells known as astrocytes are required for a signaling chemical called norepinephrine to modify brain activity, changing the textbook understanding that ...

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., and Travis E. Faust, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, explains how two different cell types in the brain—astrocytes and microglia—communicate in response to ...

Today’s world is perilously close to being consumed by the digital wave, with an estimated 210 million people worldwide trapped in the addictive hold of the internet and social media. With her ...

If the award-winning 1967 movie The Graduate were remade today, the film’s memorable word would need to switch from "plastics" to "plasticity," to mark the present as well as the future.

Breaking free from cigarettes doesn’t require willpower alone. The human brain possesses remarkable plasticity that allows for complete rewiring of smoking associations, transforming a deeply ...