Scientists have proposed a variety of features that influence one’s ability to remember things and solve problems.

Marian Diamond, a former University of California, Berkeley, professor, discovered the first evidence for neuroplasticity and studied Einstein’s brain.

Meet some of the people featured in the March 2017 issue of The Scientist.

In vivo imaging reveals how grafted embryonic brain cells grow, connect, and mature into contributing members of damaged visual pathways in adult mice.

With light, researchers can coax a group of neurons in the visual cortices of living mice to fire in concert.

This year’s awards honor discoveries on brain plasticity and the development of atomic force microscopy.

Neighboring neurons can manipulate astrocytes. 

The brain’s ability to make new neural connections can be restored in mice by blocking a protein that normally acts as a natural brake on neuroplasticity. 

A preliminary trial finds that teaching parents certain therapeutic interactions for babies showing early signs of autism may improve the infants’ future social development.

Converting sights to sounds reveals that the brains of congenitally blind people respond similarly to various objects as those of subjects who can see.

Mice that explore more have higher levels of neurogenesis, suggesting a link between experience, brain plasticity, and the emergence of distinct personalities.

Blind tadpoles regain vision when new eyes are grafted onto their tails. 

Properly folded prions aid in normal brain development.

The brains of people who cannot hear adapt to process vision-based language, in addition to brain changes associated with the loss of auditory input.