Reduce the calories at the table is good for the body but also the brain, helping to 'rejuvenate' and recover from damage. A moderate reduction in caloric intake per day, in fact, 'to increase, in adult mice, the plasticity' of the brain, characteristic of the young nervous system. To discover the relationship and 'research published in' Nature Communications', conducted on healthy adult rats by a group of researchers of the Institute of Neurosciences of the National Research Council of Pisa (In-CNR) led by Lamberto Maffei, President national Academy of Lincei and already 'Director of the Institute.