For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

Dopamine plays a more complex and precise role in brain function than previously thought: it not only enhances neural ...

Certain cognitive skills help improve memory naturally. Strengthening focus, logic, language, and emotional control can ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Bindu Paul, an associate professor of pharmacology, psychiatry and neuroscience ...

Learning is not only empowering but fulfilling. It gives our lives meaning and can benefit us professionally. Learning is also perhaps the best antidote to boredom and depression. And the really good ...

A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

In the fast-paced world we live in, maintaining a sharp mind and an impeccable memory is not just a luxury but a necessity.

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By tracking glutamate in real time, scientists can finally see how neurons process ...