Researchers have identified a brain mechanism that may determine why chronic pain leads to depression in some individuals but not others. The findings suggest the brain initially adapts to persistent ...

REM (rapid eye movement) and non-REM (NREM) sleep stages contribute to systems memory consolidation in hippocampal-cortical circuits. However, the physiological mechanisms underlying REM memory ...

An aging mouse forgets where the hidden platform sits in a water maze. But strip away a single iron-storage protein from its ...

Does the hippocampus only track location? A new study shows how the brain's memory center shifts activity between anterior ...

And cooking a meal has additional benefits. A home-cooked meal is likely to be less processed, healthier, and may use more ...

New research from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) reveals how two different parts of the brain's memory ...

The brain is more changeable than most people realize—and the things that change it the most aren't complicated.

Exercise is known to improve many aspects of cognitive function, and new research is finding that even a brief session can ...

Even a brief time spent on a bedside pedal device has positively impacted an area of the brain related to memory, according ...