Mouse neurons stained for enzyme PDE4D5 (green). New work from UC Davis shows that this enzyme plays a key role in memory formation. The process by which memories are formed in the hippocampus region ...
Your Brain's Night Shift A 2023 study found a strong link between the content of dreams and the consolidation of newly formed ...
Think of a time when you had two different but similar experiences in a short period. Maybe you attended two holiday parties in the same week or gave two presentations at work. Shortly afterward, you ...
Writing for The Conversation (republished below), researchers Jaideep Kapur, director of the University of Virginia Brain Institute, and Anastasia Brodovskaya, a UVA postdoctoral fellow in neurology, ...
What causes forgetting? This is perhaps the most central question to memory research and motivated even the earliest memory research, yet remains hotly debated today. One of the oldest theories of ...