A new study sheds light on how our brains rhythmically organize memories at the level of individual nerve cells. Researchers ...

A new study published in Nature Aging provides evidence that a single protein in the brain may play a central role in ...

Why does the brain of some people stay sharp into their 80s and beyond? An expert explains what 25 years of exploring the ...

Over the course of their lives, humans can sometimes acquire fear responses to specific stimuli, animals, objects or ...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified specific neural connections that are especially sensitive to learning about causality. The discovery, while seemingly intuitive, could have ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Human memory did not evolve for perfect recall, Lila Davachi, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Columbia University, noted. Our memory system evolved for survival, so we prioritize what is ...

A protein that builds up in aging brains may help explain why people forget where they put their keys or struggle to learn ...

What actually determines our memory? Turns out, a pair of thumb-sized structures, known as the hippocampus, deep in the ...

Study finds that lithium loss triggers Alzheimer’s, but a lithium-based compound reverses the disease in mice. What sets off ...

New research reveals that lithium helps protect against neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease by preventing toxic amyloid ...