In October 2023, Neuroscience News reported research showing that the hippocampus does much more than store memories. Drawing ...

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Memories are thought to be stored in sparse groups of neurons called engrams. These are the cells that switch on during learning and can later switch on again during recall. In physiological aging and ...

Aging doesn’t have to mean losing your past. Scientists have found a way to "reprogram" specific memory-holding neurons, restoring youthful learning and recall in mice.

Recent experimental findings suggest that the hippocampus, the brain region primarily associated with memory and navigation, actively reorganizes its neural patterns to anticipate future events.

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord. This intricate ...

“It was the first proof point,” said Pomeraniec. “We could actually take information from the real world, translate it into a ...

New research shows that physical pressure from brain tumors or injuries triggers a "self-destruction" program in neurons, leading to irreversible brain damage.

Research by a team of scientists from Cologne, Munich and Mainz has shown an unprecedented degree of connectivity reorganization in newly-generated hippocampal neurons in response to experience, ...

Biocomputing research is testing living neurons for computation as scientists look for energy-efficient alternatives to ...