Brain function requires exquisitely adapted plasticity at multiple scales, from synapses to whole-brain networks. Evidence for large-scale plasticity in functional brain networks comes from ...

For much of modern history, the brain was seen as largely fixed by the end of childhood. Intelligence, personality, and ability were believed to follow a mostly predetermined biological path.

Neuroplasticity, the brain’s adaptive ability to restructure and reorganize itself, represents one of the most fascinating aspects of the developing brain. Neuroplasticity is maximal during the “first ...

Researchers have discovered a new way that brain plasticity is controlled in early life, offering insight into the little-understood phenomenon of critical-period closure. In the months or years after ...

Every experience we have changes our brain, the way a ceramicist reshapes a slab of clay. Every corner we turn, every conversation we have, every shudder we feel causes cascading effects: Chemicals ...