Open any introductory psychology textbook and you will find the same diagram: two boxes, one labeled “episodic memory” for ...

A newly discovered developmental process reveals that the brain’s primary memory center starts out with an excess of tangled, ...

In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that how a story is told ...

The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where our memories are held. Rather, memory traces or engrams are represented by the connections between ...

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and send information and commands throughout the brain and the nervous system.

Scientists once viewed the thalamus largely as a relay station: a kind of biological switchboard routing sensory information ...

Zap someone's brain with mild jolts of electricity to try to stave off the creeping memory loss of Alzheimer's disease. And it's not easy. Holes are drilled into the patient's skull so tiny wires can ...

Poor sleep among older adults is linked to disruptions in the brain's 'waste removal system', according to researchers. A recent study offers valuable insight into how sleep quality impacts brain ...

Extremely preterm birth (before 28 weeks of gestation) places infants into the world at one of the most extraordinary moments ...

The research analyzed brain scans from patients with major depressive disorder who were not taking antidepressants, isolating ...