CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists discovered cells within the brain’s hippocampus that store memories of specific locations. These cells also play an important role in storing ...
A single missing molecule in the brain is emerging as a powerful new clue to why learning and memory are altered in Down ...
The human brain is not a passive recorder of events, it is an active simulator that constantly rehearses futures, rewrites ...
Andrew Pines, MD, MA, a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a researcher in the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, is the lead author of a paper published ...
Andrew Pines, MD, MA, a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a researcher in the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, is the lead author of a paper published ...
Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine recently discovered that junk food disrupts memory circuits in the brain almost instantaneously. Within just four days, neurons in the hippocampus became ...
A brain system involved in everything from addiction to autism appears to have evolved differently in people than in great apes, a team reports Thursday in the journal Science. The system controls the ...