Boosting mitochondrial calcium by inhibiting the LETM1 protein enhances long-term memory formation in flies and mice.

The largest fMRI study to date finds that heavy cannabis use in young adults reduces brain activity and impairs working memory performance.

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The traditional model of memory proposes that different types of long term memory are processed in separate brain modules.

A painter uses art to explore memory, PTSD, and breakthroughs in neuroscience. Painter Viviane Silvera uses art to explore memory and PTSD, animating 30,000 images to provide a visualization of the ...

Just three days of eating a diet high in saturated fat leads to memory problems and related neuroinflammation in older rats, reported a new study published in Immunity and Ageing. Previous research ...

Higher wellbeing is linked to better memory function, found a new study published in Aging & Mental Health. The findings suggest that better wellbeing may protect memory function from middle to later ...

Past studies in animals have shown that a highly processed diet is linked to memory problems and inflammation in the aged brain – and the effect can happen fast, after just three days of poor eating.

New research has found that the loss of social memory – recognizing friends and family – in Alzheimer's disease (AD) could come down to specific structures around brain cells. And targeting this ...

When my late lab partner Xu Liu and I first illuminated the brain cells that stored a particular memory, it felt like watching a thought flicker back to life. We stimulated a constellation of neurons ...