Research Articles
The Aging Mind: New Discoveries Rewrite the Story of Your Brain
Revolutionary discoveries in neuroscience reveal the aging brain is not in simple decline but undergoes dynamic changes, adaptation, and potential growth.
The Brain's Master Controller: How Metaplasticity Adapts Your Mind
Discover how metaplasticity, the brain's ability to adapt its own learning rules, bridges the gap between microscopic chemical changes and macroscopic behavioral adaptation.
The Multiscale Mind: How Scientists Are Decoding the Brain's Hidden Connections
Explore how the Journal of Multiscale Neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of the brain by studying it across all levels of organization simultaneously.
Bilingual vs. Monolingual Brains: How Knowing Two Languages Reshapes Your Mind
Explore how bilingualism reshapes the brain's structure and function through fMRI studies, revealing a distinctive neural signature of bilingualism.
The Secret World Inside a Tiny Brain: Unveiling the Neuroscience of Saimiri collinsi
Explore the fascinating neuroscience research on Saimiri collinsi squirrel monkeys and their significant contributions to understanding brain evolution, social behavior, and neurological disorders.
Brain Structure-Function Couplings: Year 2 Accomplishments and Programmatic Plans
Exploring how the brain's physical wiring creates our mind through structure-function coupling research from the BRAIN Initiative's second year accomplishments.
The Brain's Abacus: How Your Mind Counts Without Numbers
Discover how your brain uses labeled-line and summation coding in prefrontal and parietal cortex to understand quantities without counting.
Beyond Slow Motion: How Steroids Act as Your Brain's Lightning-Fast Messengers
Discover how steroids produce rapid effects in the brain through non-genomic pathways, influencing mood, cognition, and inflammation in seconds rather than days.
The Brain in Flux: Teaching Neuroscience While We Still Discover What It Is
Exploring how introductory neuroscience courses are adapting to teach a field that's rapidly evolving and being redefined by new discoveries.
The Secret Conversation: How Your Brain Listens to Both Hands
Discover how your brain's ipsilateral somatosensory cortex processes same-side hand sensations, challenging traditional neuroscience views.