Once in the hippocampus, memories and learning can be transmitted to different parts of the brain and retrieved whenever ...

Focal potassium microinjection induces the incidence of epileptiform activities of rat hippocampal slices. We investigated the seizure responses of this activity in vitro using extracellular records ...

The hippocampus is a forebrain structure located within the medial temporal lobe that consists of the subiculum, CA1, CA2, CA3 and dentate gyrus regions. The hippocampal formation also includes ...

Adolescent diets high in fat and sugar disrupt the development of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, impacting cognition, ...

Even daily use of low-level cannabis does not have a negative impact on cognition in older adults, recent research finds.

This is an important study that combines replications of findings and novel detailed MRI investigations to assess the impact of environmental enrichment and maternal behavior on mice brain structure ...

Based on several lines of interesting data, the authors conclude that FMRP, though associated with stalled ribosomes, does not determine the position on the mRNAs at which ribosomes stall. Although ...

Swimming reduces the risk of dementia for those over the age of 60, according to a number of scientific experts. As we age, ...

Understanding the risks of cross-sex hormone therapy is important not only for clinicians and patients but also for policymakers, parents, and the broader public. Medicalized gender transition for ...

I ran four miles every day, did breathing exercises, listened to a meditation tape a friend gave me. Useless. I finally caved and saw my general practitioner, who prescribed Ambien, telling me to feel ...

The devotion and camaraderie between people from different religions leave a lasting impression on B SIVAKUMAR who on his trip to Kullu and Manali visits a temple a gurdwara and a Tibetan monastery Si ...

And I think of Allan Rechtschaffen, another pioneer in the field, who in 1989 had the fiendish idea to place rats on a spinning mechanism that forced them to stay ... their REM phase tends to be ...