Mice can develop neural signs of depression when forced to watch other mice experiencing stress
Such research can make us better understand how depression arises in the brain.
Tag: hippocampus
Western junk-food diet can slow down your brain and make you eat even more junk
Just one week of switching to a diet of burgers, waffles, milkshakes, and sugary cereals can be enough to trigger ...
The hippocampus is the curator of our memories, new study suggests
The brain has an auto-complete feature for your memories. The hippocampus handles it.
Researchers identify clump of neurons that block, or allow, frightful memories into our minds
Fear is the mind killer.
Humans as old as 79 still generate new neurons, stirring new debate
The results are encouraging given an aging population around the world.
Stress ruins memory, but you can outrun this effect
Stress and memory don't mix very well.
Playing computer games could help keep your brain in good shape, new study reports
Super Mario is better for your brain than taking piano lessons.
Why we can’t remember things before age 3-4
Ever tried really hard to pinpoint your very first memory? Doctors say it has something to do with hippocampus overload.
Not all video games are equal: some hurt your brain while others improve cognition
Action games that use in-game GPS do not promote spatial reasoning and can lead to a gray matter decrease in ...
That urge to complete other people’s sentences? Turns out the brain has its own Auto Correct
In the hippocampus -- which is weird, because we didn't think it had anything to do with talking.
Brain’s memory may be 10 times larger than previously thought
A groundbreaking research out of the Salk Institute suggests synapses are 10 times bigger in the hippocampus. Conversely, this means ...
How your brain distinguishes safety from danger
Columbia University researchers have successfully identified the cellular network that allows mice to remember which environments are safe and which ...
Rats dream of getting to a brighter future
It's not just us humans that dream of a better future - rats do too. When rats rest, their brains ...
Light/Moderate Alcohol Consumption associated with better Memory in Later Life
Alcohol is generally regarded as unhealthy, with a myriad of long-term negative effects and even short term negative effects. But ...
Baby brains grow to half the adult size in just 90 days
Researchers performed MRI scans on babies to see how their brains developed from birth to later stages. Their findings reveal ...
Erasing traumatic memories using gene therapy
Photo: neuroanthropology.net - It's estimated that some 8 million people in the United States suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), causing ...
Meditation Could Slow the Progress of Alzheimer’s
Meditation has been shown to have an impact on brain activity, decreasing beta waves and impacting each part differently. Activity ...
As we age learning is hampered because our brains can’t filter useless information as before
Children are veritable knowledge sponges that can appropriate an intense amount of skills in a short amount of time. As ...
Memories are stored in specific brain cells, MIT Inception-like research finds
When the brain deems an experience meaningful enough, it will transfer that information from short-term storage, where typically information like ...
Why the brain gets slower as we get older
From a certain age onward, humans seem to process information at a slower pace - learning new things becomes more difficult, ...
An unhealthy lifestyle leads to brain shrinkage later on, study says
The latin phrase "mens sana in corpore sano" has been put to the test by researchers who wanted to study ...
Pollution linked to memory loss
It's pretty evident for anyone living in a big, crowded city what pollution looks like and to what degree our ...
Remember and forget at the flick of a button
A team of neuro-scientists have managed to restore lost memories to rats by activating a part of their brains through ...
