A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

A strong memory sounds like an unmitigated good, but science shows that vivid recall can distort your reality, fuel anxiety ...

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

A landmark international study that pooled brain scans and memory tests from thousands of adults has shed new light on how ...

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...

A neuroscientist survey shows that 40 percent think it might be possible to preserve a human brain, potentially well enough ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

A new study found that fixing energy balance in the brain reversed symptoms of advanced Alzheimer’s in mice.  Researchers used a drug (P7C3-A20) to ...