Stress is the brain’s natural response to fear, but it often disrupts memory in the process, potentially impacting the possibility of memory loss. When preparing for a big presentation or taking a ...

Memory representations are fundamental to human cognition, yet their integrity can be compromised with advancing age. Recent research has elucidated complex molecular and circuit-level mechanisms ...

Groundbreaking research from NYU reveals non-neural human cells can remember chemical signals. This challenges the long-held belief that only the brain stores memories. Cells exposed to spaced signals ...

Memories don’t live everywhere in the brain. They’re stored in small clusters of neurons called engrams that fire again when a memory is recalled. Research over the past decade has mapped these memory ...

Researchers found that stress alters how our brain encodes and retrieves aversive memories. They also developed a potential new method for restoring adequate memory specificity in persons suffering ...

Memory formation and maintenance fundamentally rely on intricate molecular processes that regulate synaptic strength. Central to this phenomenon is synaptic plasticity – the capacity of neural ...

One of the biggest mysteries of the brain is how memories are formed. For over a century, scientists have hypothesized that neurons are the only cells involved in storing and recalling memories. Now, ...

What do fruit flies and Nobel Prizes have in common? More than you might think — especially when it comes to understanding how memories are made and stored in the brain. Working with collaborators in ...

Scientists have discovered why we don’t remember being a baby, despite learning so much in those early years of life. Researchers have long believed we don’t hold onto these experiences because the ...

We tend to think of human memory as if it's one of those old steel filing cabinets: some information gets stashed inside, and when the time comes, we hope we can find it by flipping through the tabs ...

New research reveals a cascade of molecular timers unfolding across the hippocampus, thalamus, and cortex determine whether short-term impressions consolidate into long-term memory, with implications ...