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Mar. 15, 2023 Learning, remembering something, and recalling memories is supported by multiple separate groups of neurons connected inside and across key regions in the brain. If these neural assemblies fail to ...
Aug. 1, 2022 Using digital devices, such as smartphones, could help improve memory skills rather than causing people to become lazy or forgetful, finds a new ...
Oct. 6, 2021 A new study showed a link between an individual's sense of purpose and their ability to recall vivid details. The researchers found that while both a sense of purpose and cognitive function made ...
Jan. 23, 2023 The next time you're struggling to remember exactly where you left your keys, parked your car or put down your glasses, don't necessarily give up on your memory completely. Previous ...
July 13, 2022 While the overall experience is stored in the hippocampus, the brain structure long considered the seat of memory, individual details are parsed and stored elsewhere, in the prefrontal cortex. This ...
Jan. 10, 2024 Rapid-acting antidepressants, including ketamine, scopolamine and psilocybin, have been found to have immediate and lasting positive effects on mood in patients with major depressive disorder but how ...
Dec. 26, 2022 A remote fear memory is a memory of traumatic events that occurred in the distant past -- a few months to decades ago. A mouse study has now spelled out the fundamental mechanisms by which the brain ...
June 14, 2021 On average the earliest memories that people can recall point back to when they were just two-and-a-half years old, a new study ...
Oct. 23, 2023 For the first time, a new study in rats teases apart the role of the hippocampus in two functions of memory -- one that remembers associations between time, place and what one did, and another that ...
May 25, 2021 While we sleep, the brain produces particular activation patterns. When two of these patterns - slow oscillations and sleep spindles - gear into each other, previous experiences are reactivated. The ...