Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...
A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...
For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...
Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...
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 ...
For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...
Every moment, the brain balances signals that unfold at different speeds. Some arrive in milliseconds, such as a sudden sound ...
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 ...