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 brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

Scientists have identified a previously unseen layered organization inside one of the brain’s most important memory hubs.

Long-term memory emerges from a sequence of molecular programs that sort, stabilize, and reinforce important experiences.

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 ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

MIT scientists found that what we see is strongly influenced by how alert or active we are. Parts of the brain responsible ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The new ...