Our episodic memory – the ability to recall past events and experiences – is known to decline as we age. Exactly how and why ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

For more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a tale of neurons, with every thought and memory traced to their electrical chatter. That narrative is now being rewritten as evidence ...

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

Johns Hopkins scientists reveal that “inactive” GluD brain proteins regulate neuronal communication and open up new ...

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

A new study in mice suggests that memory problems in Alzheimer’s disease may stem from a breakdown in how the brain replays recent experiences during periods of rest. The research was carried out by s ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

Menopause is linked to a loss in gray matter volume, a new study suggests, which may explain why so many older women ...

Researchers find long COVID brain effects vary by country, suggesting many cases may go underrecognized in lower-resource ...