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 ...

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

That constant tab-switching habit might be doing more harm to your brain than you think. We’ve all been there – responding to emails while joining a Zoom call, scrolling social media during a TV show, ...

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 ...

(a) Diagram illustrating the ion channel activity in post-synaptic neurons. AMPA receptors are involved in the activation of post-synaptic neurons, while NMDA receptors are blocked by magnesium ions ...

Imagine that while you are enjoying your morning bowl of Cheerios, a spider drops from the ceiling and plops into the milk. Years later, you still can’t get near a bowl of cereal without feeling ...

There’s a paradox in memory science: Empirical evidence and life experience both suggest older adults have more knowledge of the world. However, in laboratory settings, they generally perform worse on ...

A research team led by faculty members at Wayne State University has discovered that communication between two key memory regions in the brain determines how what we experience becomes part of what we ...

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 ...

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 ...