"On the Brain" with Dr. Michael Merzenich

Does exercise make kids smarter?

That's the claim of a lead article in an issue of Newsweek many years ago....

$Learning math on the streets$

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I'm in Queretaro, Mexico this week, visiting a world-class Neuroscience Insitute that is a part...

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Come join me this Wednesday, June 28th, on the social discussion website Reddit to talk...

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It’s Brain Awareness Week, and we’ll be hearing about breakthroughs in basic science that...

Dr. Michael Merzenich conducted the seminal experiments that led to the discovery of lifelong plasticity — that...