The prevalence of hearing problems in the Western world has, due to aging of the
population, doubled over the past 30 years. Thereby, noise-induced hearing loss is an …

The concept of 'cognitive reserve', and a broader theory of 'brain reserve', were originally
proposed to help explain epidemiological data indicating that individuals who engaged in …

Music is a highly complex and versatile stimulus for the brain that engages many temporal,
frontal, parietal, cerebellar, and subcortical areas involved in auditory, cognitive, emotional …

Environmental enrichment (EE) has been shown to have powerful beneficial effects on a
variety of physiological and pathological processes. Accumulating evidence indicates that …

Environmental enrichment (EE) was shown recently to accelerate brain development in
rodents. Increased levels of maternal care, and particularly tactile stimulation through licking …

Abstract Purpose of Review Studies of the neurobiology and treatment of PTSD have
highlighted many aspects of the pathophysiology of this disorder that might be relevant to …

Music is an enjoyable leisure activity that also engages many emotional, cognitive, and
motor processes in the brain. Here, we will first review previous literature on the emotional …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), caused by direct blows to the head or inertial forces during
relative head-brain movement, can result in long-lasting cognitive and motor deficits which …

The brain's life-long capacity for experience-dependent plasticity allows adaptation to new
environments or to changes in the environment, and to changes in internal brain states such …

A crucial issue in neurobiology is to understand the main mechanisms restricting neural
plasticity to brief windows of early postnatal life. The visual system is one of the paradigmatic …