Experiments point to how scientists can strengthen or weaken memories, which may eventually lead to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease or PTSD.

Most past neuroscience studies have focused on how the hippocampus supports episodic memory (i.e., the memory of personal experiences or life events) and spatial navigation. Yet recent findings ...

The scientists were investigating the hippocampus, a brain area that plays a key role in memory in humans and mice. Specifically, they focused on the CA2 region, which is significant for social ...

ME researchers have discovered that increased blood flow leads to stiffness in the hippocampus, a region of the brain that plays important roles in learning and memory. The hippocampus is one of the ...

Yet there are commonalities in how memory works overall, and key brain structures, such as the hippocampus, that are integral to different kinds of memory. In addition to memory’s role in ...

Researchers from Yale studied the memory formation in infants aged four months to two years. They discovered that the ...

The DAM-Decision and Memory group at Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, led by Raphael Kaplan and composed of researchers from ...

And the posterior part of the hippocampus (the portion closer to the back of the head) where encoding activity was strongest is the same area that’s most associated with episodic memory in adults.

Researchers aimed to record activity in the hippocampus — the portion of the brain associated with emotions, memory and the autonomic nervous system. “The hippocampus is a deep brain structure ...

"Next to age, an under-stimulating environment and social isolation are ... is related to activity in the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for memory, learning and novelty detection.