From the Brown University press release: Where are you? Conventional wisdom in brain research says that you just used your hippocampus to answer that question, but that might not be the whole story. The context…
From the University of Western Ontario press release via EurekAlert!: New research from Western University could lead to better treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and drug addiction by effectively blocking memories. The research performed…
From the Elsevier press release via AlphaGalileo: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a form of learning that begins at the moment of the exposure to extremely stressful situations and that grows in impact as trauma-related…
From the American Epilepsy Society (AES) press release via ScienceDaily: A behavioral test widely used on rodents to study spatial learning and memory, the Morris water maze (MWM), was recreated using software developed to create…
From the Radiological Society of North America press release via EurekAlert!: An active lifestyle helps preserve gray matter in the brains of older adults and could reduce the burden of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD),…
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: You may have received CPR training some time ago, but would you remember the proper technique in an emergency? Would you know what to do in the event…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: While in deep dreamless sleep, our hippocampus sends messages to our cortex and changes its plasticity, possibly transferring recently acquired knowledge to long-term memory. But how exactly is this done?…
From the Wellcome Trust press release via EurekAlert!: The discovery of the molecular pathway that drives the changes seen in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients is reported today, revealing new targets for drug discovery that…
From the MIT press release by Anne Trafton via EurekAlert!: One of the biggest puzzles in neuroscience is how our brains encode thoughts, such as perceptions and memories, at the cellular level. Some evidence suggests…
From the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston press release via EurekAlert!: An FDA-approved drug initially used to treat insulin resistance in diabetics has shown promise as a way to improve cognitive performance in…