Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things ...

Challenge your mind. Like a muscle, the brain strengthens with use. Mander suggests learning a new language, playing music, doing puzzles or pursuing mentally demanding hobbies to help reinforce ...

A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written ...

Skoltech scientists have devised a mathematical model of memory. By analyzing its new model, the team came to surprising ...

Researchers found cells that ‘fired’ in pattern that mirrored mileage clock by ticking along with distance travelled ...

The human brain consumes approximately 20% of your daily caloric intake, making nutrition one of the most powerful tools for enhancing cognitive function and memory. While the brain requires ...

For families of children with severe epilepsy, controlling seizures is often just the beginning of their challenges. Even in ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...