A discovery made by a research team from McGill University sheds new light on the mechanisms of memory retention, which ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that clusters of brain tissue derived from the cells of patients ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

The hippocampus is a crucial part of the brain that plays a role in memory and learning, especially in remembering directions ...

Complex protein interactions at synapses are essential for memory formation in our brains, but the mechanisms behind these processes remain poorly understood. Now, researchers have developed a ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

I've always wondered what exactly happens inside my brain after a sleepless night. Why does everything feel harder—thinking ...

Neuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated when the brain becomes aware of its own thoughts, known as conscious perception. The brain is constantly ...

Between roughly age 9 and 17, the human brain is supposed to get sharply better at remembering things. A new study tracking ...