Neurodegenerative disease profoundly affects structures and pathways responsible for memory, cognition, and higher-order ...

Past neuroscience studies have found that this process of acquiring behavioral patterns via experience is supported by various brain regions. One of these regions is the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC ...

Fear response to traumatic or threatening situations helps us evade or escape danger. At the same time fear response is learned in the form of association between stimulus or situation and the ...

Recent neuroscience studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have enhanced our understanding of how sleep is related to learning and memory. A study just reported in the journal ...

The largest fMRI study to date finds that heavy cannabis use in young adults reduces brain activity and impairs working memory performance.

Expert tells ‘Post’ why brain remembers pain and why it must forget ...

After treatment, the mice’s memories were essentially shunted back into a younger state. The researchers found that reprogrammed engrams displayed molecular behavior of more youthful cells. Using a ...