People differ significantly in their memory performance. Researchers have now discovered that certain brain signals are related to these differences. People differ significantly in their memory ...

Neurodegenerative disease profoundly affects structures and pathways responsible for memory, cognition, and higher-order ...

For the first time, researchers identified the function of the CASKIN2 protein, which plays a key role in precise signal transmission between neurons and memory formation in the brain. This study is ...

Making a specific type of brain pattern last longer improves short-term memory in rats, a new study finds. Making a specific type of brain pattern last longer improves short-term memory in rats, a new ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...