Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things happen.

A Nature study from Harvard suggests lithium loss—known from psychiatric use—may play a key role in Alzheimer’s onset, pointing to a potential new treatment path ...

A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

College of Pharmacy Professor Jaime Ross has discovered that cognitive decline occurs in a sex-dependent manner, mirroring patterns observed in humans. Tiny fragments of plastic, known as ...

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism by which nanoplastics impair brain energy metabolism, offering new clues into environmental contributions to neurodegeneration.

A new study in Science now promises to kick this dust up all over again: it has reported evidence of neural progenitor cells ...

By working to understand how new AI systems integrate flexible and incremental learning, researchers gained insights about ...

New stem cell–based brain models from UCLA scientists show how a single epilepsy gene variant affects different brain regions ...

That may be about to change. A few days after Ms. McVean woke up in the Foothills Medical Center in Calgary, she was told ...