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 ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain immune cells.

The process of “epigenetic memory” in nerve cells plays a key role in learning ability, memory function, and healthy brain development. Prof. Tomohisa Toda at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und ...

Learn how the brain’s replay system helps us consolidate memories — and what goes wrong when Alzheimer’s disease interferes ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written language is ancient — we’ve been at it for roughly 5,000 years — it’s not an ...

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When the brain rests, it usually replays recent experiences to strengthen memory. Scientists found that in Alzheimer’s-like ...

A recent study in mice suggests that microglia, immune cells found in the brain, may play a role in early memory loss, or ...

A new type of brain implant may have implications for both brain research and future treatments of neurological diseases such ...

Know how poor sleep and vitamin D deficiency in children can impact brain growth, immunity, focus, behavior, and long-term ...