Most everyday moments are quickly forgotten, while others stay with us for a lifetime. How the brain determines which ...

We may finally have an answer on why people’s memories tend to decline with age.

Brain fog can be scary. It might appear innocently, like losing your car keys or forgetting what date you scheduled that appointment on. Some of this memory loss is normal—it’s just a natural side ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

Hippocampal subfields age differently, with volume reductions observed at different ages. Females exhibit decreased volume in ...

The Journal Sentinel's science intern surveyed the newsroom on their common beliefs about how the brain works. See how you ...

Perineuronal nets stabilize memory circuits and diminish during late adolescence before rebuilding in adulthood.

If quizzed on your biggest health fear, chances are losing sharpness when it comes to brain function is up there. In fact, half of UK adults say they fear developing dementia more than any other ...

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost memory Nora Bradford, Quanta Magazine Some solutions are reached incrementally ...

If you spend most of your time sitting in your midlife years, you may be looking at a comparatively smaller brain after ...

Researchers tracking 1,700 adults found midlife TV watching causes long-term brain shrinkage and white matter damage.

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...