Our brains are plastic. They continually remould neural connections as we learn, experience and adapt. Now researchers are asking if new understanding of these processes can help us train our brains.
Individual differences in early language development, and in later language functioning, are associated with changes in the anatomy of the brain in autism.
Conditions which may accelerate the spread of Parkinson’s disease, and a potential means of enhancing naturally-occurring defences against neurodegenerative disorders, have been identified in two new studies.
New research reveals that brain damage affecting the insula – an area with a key role in emotions – disrupts errors of thinking linked to gambling addiction.
A remarkable new project that looks at brain donor’s involvement in brain research and the search for cures for dementia will be presented at this year’s Cambridge Science Festival on Friday 21 March.
Experiments have identified a dedicated information highway that combines visual cues with body motion. This mechanism triggers responses to cues before the conscious brain has become aware of them.          Â
New study examines thousands of brains from two decades of research to reveal differences between male and female brain structure.
People with autism are more likely to also have synaesthesia, suggests new research in the journal Molecular Autism.
Research suggests that the main cause of the disorder may lie instead in structural differences in the grey matter in the brain.
In a groundbreaking new study, Cambridge researchers have mapped out the neurobiological basis of a key aspect of human communication: intonation.
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