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

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

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

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

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

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

With aging comes change; wrinkles, gray hair, and height differences are all a part of the mix. But it’s not just the cosmetic transformations that people fear. According to a study from the Global ...

You can use up all the storage on your phone or max out your computer's drive, but can you use up all the memory space in your brain? Despite how you might feel before an exam or after a sleepless ...

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

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

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 ...