Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...
The hippocampus is a crucial part of the brain that plays a role in memory and learning, especially in remembering directions and locations. New research from the University of Chicago shows how this ...
A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, but by widespread structural changes across the brain that build up over ...
A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...
People given general anaesthesia fall into a coma-like state in which their memory and perception of pain are switched off.
The Papez circuit, first described in 1937, is a network of brain structures linking memory and emotion. Modern imaging and anatomical studies reveal it’s more complex than originally thought, ...
In the final stages of his dementia, a long-lost memory from childhood returned, perfectly formed. What was going on in his ...
The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...