"On the Brain" with Dr. Michael Merzenich

Brain Plasticity and Culture

In a recent book "Brain and Culture" (MIT Press), Dr. Bruce Wexler, a Yale psychiatrist,...

My wife Diane and I just returned from a working visit to Japan (I was...

I have earlier described evidence from a large British study that identified a positive impact...

Remind yourself this week that you have a brain. It`s officially Brain Awareness Week, which...

A controlled scientific study (Improvement in Memory with Plasticity-based Adaptive Cognitive Training; the IMPACT Study)...

I was dismayed by the recent 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals rejection of a...

The following comments were written by Meghan Lil, who I knew as a darling, sassy...

In a yesterday's blog, we discussed a study that provided powerful evidence that losing your...