Study: Brain’s Network of Flexible Hubs Help People Adapt

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have found evidence that sections of the brain contain flexible hubs that arrange for the brain’s response to novel challenges. Likening the flexible hubs to an internet router, the study’s lead author Michael Cole, PhD, says, “Flexible hubs are brain regions that coordinate activity throughout the brain to implement tasks…[shifting] which networks they communicate with based on instructions for the task at hand and can do so even for tasks never performed before.” With additional research, there is hope that enhancement to the flexible hub could allow for reduced symptoms in mental disorders such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Click here to read the full story.