While some decline in the ability to remember is a normal part of aging, for a subset of people, growing older brings the onset of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. In such ...

Memory can be broken down into multiple types, including long-term memory, short-term memory, explicit and implicit memory, and working memory. Memory is a process in your brain that enables you to ...

WHAT YOUR NOSE KNOWS ABOUT YOUR BRAIN. JESSICA IS HERE WITH SOME GROUNDBREAKING WORK THAT SOME LOCAL DOCTORS ARE DOING. JESSICA. YES THAT’S RIGHT. RESEARCHERS AT MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL NOW BELIEVE YOU ...

Researchers have discovered two types of brain cells that play a key role in dividing continuous human experience into distinct segments that can be recalled later. The discovery provides new promise ...

The brain's ability to do everything from forming memories to coordinating movement relies on its cells producing the right proteins at the right time. But directly measuring this protein production, ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when lysosomes, the cellular sanitation machines responsible for those tasks, break down or ...