The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports learning and the encoding of ...

Scientists have found that your brain separates memories into “what” and “where/when” using two different groups of neurons.

A study in mice concluded that memory problems associated with age may be driven by our gut microbiome and that the vagus ...

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

Neurons that track which direction an animal faces can hold their firing patterns steady for months, even as other brain ...

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 ...

Researchers identify "meal memory" neurons in laboratory rats that could explain why forgetting lunch leads to overeating. Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

Alcohol consumption is one of the habits that can do the most harm to our health, especially to the brain and its neurons.

Many people fear the loss of their cognitive faculties as they age. However, some people, described as super-agers, maintain ...