Even a brief time spent on a bedside pedal device has positively impacted an area of the brain related to memory, according ...

Complex protein interactions at synapses are essential for memory formation in our brains, but the mechanisms behind these processes remain poorly understood. Now, researchers from Japan have ...

Does the hippocampus only track location? A new study shows how the brain's memory center shifts activity between anterior ...

Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

The brain does not only cooperate; it also competes. So determines an international study by the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Pompeu Fabra University and the Montreal ...

In a recent study published in Science Advances, a group of researchers assessed whether dendritic spine head diameter in the temporal cortex is a better predictor of episodic memory performance in ...

Compared to novices, seasoned birders had denser, more structurally complex brain regions involved with tasks like object ...

Long working hours may alter the structure of the brain, particularly the areas associated with emotional regulation and executive function, such as working memory and problem solving, suggest the ...

Where does imagination come from? A new fMRI study in Neuron reveals that mental imagery emerges from the brain's association ...