Dopamine signaling and fan cells in the medial temporal lobe play a key role in associative memory formation. The corresponding study was published in Nature by researchers at the University of ...

Here is an important reason to stay in touch with friends and family: social isolation causes memory and learning deficits and other behavioral changes. Many brain studies have focused on the effects ...

Recent research indicates that consuming high levels of dietary salt for an extended period may disrupt the delicate balance ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It may be the smell of freshly baked cookies or the scent of a campfire that triggers a flood of memories and emotions. This is because scent has a stronger link to memory than any ...

Depressive symptoms are linked to later memory decline in older people. The opposite is also true: Poorer memory is associated with an increase in depressive symptoms later on, according to a study ...

Okay so does anyone understand why such wierd things trigger your memory?<P>Okay a little while ago I was reading the A bird thread, when PO's story triggered mine. Then for some reason that made me ...

A research team identified the brain's food-specific memory system and its direct role in overeating and diet-induced obesity. They found a specific population of neurons in the mouse brain that ...

In animal models, social isolation triggers memory and learning deficits that are mediated by hyperactivity of the most abundant brain cell, the astrocyte. Importantly, inhibiting this hyperactivity ...