Studies show THC can influence multiple stages of memory formation, shaping not just what we remember—but how accurately we ...

Amyloid proteins are typically considered bad guys, playing front-and-center roles in diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. However, for nearly two decades, the Stowers Institute in Kansas ...

That constant tab-switching habit might be doing more harm to your brain than you think. We’ve all been there – responding to emails while joining a Zoom call, scrolling social media during a TV show, ...

Going against what we thought was true, a controversial new Nature study has shown that nerve cell regeneration in a part of our brains called the dentate gyrus seems to halt when we hit the age of 13 ...

All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal ...

Imagine that while you are enjoying your morning bowl of Cheerios, a spider drops from the ceiling and plops into the milk. Years later, you still can’t get near a bowl of cereal without feeling ...

Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have managed to image the formation of memories inside the brains of live fish in real time. And the results were intriguing – synapses were ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

There’s a paradox in memory science: Empirical evidence and life experience both suggest older adults have more knowledge of the world. However, in laboratory settings, they generally perform worse on ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The story of your life is encoded in your memories, but scientists don’t have a strong grasp on exactly how the brain turns a fleeting sensory ...