A University of Ottawa neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation ...

The brain contains more than 100 billion of them. It is through the development, activation, and modification of these neuronal networks that the brain is able to make sense of information about ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. The findings ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial pathway that links brain cell activity to the activation of genes responsible for ...

A breakthrough study sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical information from their extremities to their nucleus, leading to the activation of genes essential for learning and memory.

Scientists have pinpointed a brain circuit that, when activated, reduces anxiety without impairing memory. Using ...

Research from the Voigt lab at the Babraham Institute has investigated the mechanism by which bivalency functions to poise ...

Their findings, published in Neuron, suggest that the two systems interact in the hippocampus, with persistent WM activity predicting the formation of LTM. "Working memory (WM) and long-term ...