Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create memories of meals, encoding not just what food was eaten but when it was eaten. The findings, published in Nature Communications, ...

A major study found that adults with depression show disrupted production of new neurons in the hippocampus, potentially ...

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. The research from Karolinska ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brief gene pulse in learning-activated engram neurons restored memory in aged and Alzheimer's-model mice. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

Certain nerve cells in the brain become active whenever they are confronted with different images or the name of a specific person or the identity of an object. They are highly selective and do not ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

This important study on multisensory learning examines the effect of integrating color vision and olfaction in the center for learning and memory (the mushroom body) in the fruit fly brain, and finds ...

Healthy mouse neurons in the hippocampus. When the nine-letter microexon is excluded from the DAAM1 protein, the neurons form fewer connections with other cells. Cells have a trick called splicing.

As far back as Plato and Aristotle, people believed that our memories had to be physical somethings that were stored somewhere in the brain. But only in modern times have we learned much about what ...