By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Memory failures often feel like personal lapses, but new research suggests the problem may be rooted in hidden architecture ...

Scientists uncovered a surprising four-layer structure hidden inside the hippocampal CA1 region, one of the brain’s major centers for memory, navigation, and emotion. Using advanced RNA imaging ...

The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where our memories are held. Rather, memory traces or engrams are represented by the connections between ...

A new review explores how episodic memories are formed, stored, and reshaped over time, revealing why our recollections of past events often change.

People who still have very sharp memory into old age—known as "superagers"—may get their impressive powers from certain areas of the brain being preserved. Brain structures known as white matter ...

With all the hype around brain-computer interfaces, you might think neuroscientists already have a pretty good idea of how memory works in the brain. After all, if you are going to upload your memory ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

Our brain wiring seems to undergo four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83, which could influence our capacity to ...

New details on how the brain stores info, and why it's limited. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2009 — -- Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from ...

How we process the world—absorbing, interpreting, and responding to our surroundings—is never a one-way street. No two people ...

Memory loss after brain aneurysm surgeries, like coiling, is common. Some people experience memory loss for less than a day. For others, difficulties with memory can persist for months. Surgical ...