The hippocampus is a key brain region involved in memory formation and spatial orientation. It transforms short-term memories ...

Amyloid proteins are typically considered bad guys, playing front-and-center roles in diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. However, for nearly two decades, the Stowers Institute in Kansas ...

Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have discovered a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain. Their work suggests that long-term memory can form ...

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Why do memories fade in Alzheimer’s disease – and can they be restored? University of California, Irvine researchers have ...

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Scientists have identified a new factor that may explain why memory declines in Alzheimer’s disease, pointing to a disruption ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

Going against what we thought was true, a controversial new Nature study has shown that nerve cell regeneration in a part of our brains called the dentate gyrus seems to halt when we hit the age of 13 ...

But new research published in Neuropsychopharmacology suggests the relationship between sleep, caffeine and brain function ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The story of your life is encoded in your memories, but scientists don’t have a strong grasp on exactly how the brain turns a fleeting sensory ...