Although the terms brain pliability, brain plasticity, and neuroplasticity are closely tied to the 20th century, the concepts ...

This valuable manuscript addresses the longstanding question of how the brain maintains serial order in working memory, proposing a biologically grounded model based on synaptic augmentation ...

XINING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have newly revealed that the plasticity of gut microbiota is a key factor assisting ungulates in better adapting to different regions on the ...

Although much life-history theory assumes otherwise, most life-history traits exhibit phenotypic plasticity in response to environmental factors during development. Plasticity has long been recognized ...

Every time you lose your keys or draw a blank on someone’s name, it may feel like your brain, with each passing year, isn’t working as well as it used to.

Xiao Xu, Chenhao Zhou, Qiang He, Shiyun Qiu, Yan Zhang, Ji Yang, Bo Li, Ming Nie, Phenotypic plasticity of light use favors a plant invader in nitrogen-enriched ecosystems, Ecology, Vol. 103, No. 5 ...

Epigenetics often reflect environmental exposures — such as stress, trauma, nutrition or caregiving. But they’re not necessarily permanent “scars”. Many are dynamic and can shift with changing ...

A research team led by Jiang Ma from Shenzhen University, China, has developed a novel technique to enhance the plasticity of metallic glasses. By leveraging a combination of controlled aging ...

A team of researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, further investigated the link between hippocampal G protein-activated inward rectifier potassium channel (GIRK) and Alzheimer’s ...