A brain-imaging study following nearly 500 adults connects several familiar cardiovascular risks with the tissue damage most ...

Research from scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and collaborators has shed new light on how the human brain coordinates working memory, the process in which the ...

A new study induced artificial hibernation in lab mice and may have revealed something fundamental about the nature of memory ...

An international team led by Jaime de Juan-Sanz at the Paris Brain Institute has shown that slightly increasing the metabolic capacity of neurons can enhance long-term memory in both fruit flies and ...

Memories can survive even after the brain temporarily loses more than half of its synaptic connections, according to the results of a study in mice that challenge the long-held view that long-term ...

Scientists have uncovered a stepwise system that guides how the brain sorts and stabilizes lasting memories. By tracking brain activity during virtual reality learning tasks, researchers identified ...

Memories can survive even after the brain temporarily loses more than half of its synaptic connections, according to a new mouse study, which challenges the long-held view that long-term memories ...

Struggling to find the right word mid-sentence, or walking into a room and forgetting why you're there? If you're going ...

Can sleep apnea raise your risk of dementia? Here's what researchers say about the link.

About 90 miles north of Phoenix, the town of Yarnell nestles atop a winding mountain road. Phoenix, a sprawling city of more than 1.6 million people, has one physician for every 2,407 people. But in ...

Sitting too much may affect the brain through changes in blood flow, inflammation, and the way brain cells function over time. A single sedentary day is not the problem; the bigger concern is when low ...