According to evidence from a preclinical study published in Nature, the hippocampus, the brain's memory center, may also reorganize memories to anticipate future outcomes. The study, conducted by ...

A research team says high blood sugar levels appear to weaken function in key part of brain, mimicking Alzheimer's. Type 2 diabetes may rewire the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer's disease -- ...

For the first time, a study in rats teases apart the role of the hippocampus in two functions of memory—one that remembers associations between time, place and what one did, and another that allows ...

Your ability to remember something involves three phases. There is a learning phase (which psychologists call encoding) in which you encounter some piece of information. There is a retention interval ...

A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It produces dopamine, a neuromodulator that helps predict future rewards based on ...