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 ...

Your brain doesn t just send messages through one universal route it uses separate pathways for spontaneous activity and signals linked to learning. These findings overturn a major neuroscience ...

Dr. Gina Turrigiano is the Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science in the Biology Department at Brandeis University, where she heads the Turrigiano Lab. Dr. Turrigiano completed her undergraduate ...

One of the main goals of neuroscience is to understand how brains learn and remember just by interacting with the environment. Examples of this learning and memory range from how we find our way home ...

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.

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 ...