Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists discovered cells within the brain's hippocampus that store memories of specific locations. These cells also play an important role in storing memories of ...

The size of the hippocampus, an important structure in the brain's memory circuit, is typically measured as one method to determine the integrity of the memory circuit. However, the shape of this ...

the neural circuits that formed that short-term memory will stop activating together, and the memory will fade away. When you rehearse information or try to remember it, the hippocampus kicks in ...

In individuals in the control group, post-exercise performance was accompanied by increased activation of the hippocampus—the brain region crucial for memory—and increased levels of ...

These insights activated the hippocampus and reorganized neural patterns in visual recognition areas, strengthening memory ...

“We hypothesized that the hippocampus leverages distinct circuit mechanisms to balance the increase in firing rates during memory consolidation,” the team continued. The hippocampus is divided ...

which is known to regulate memory circuits in the hippocampus. But probably the most striking discovery came when the researchers tested whether the astrocytes involved in memorizing an event also ...

Because these kinds of memory tasks involve a brain region called the hippocampus ... directly related to forming and organizing neural circuit connections called synapses. To confirm the ...

An index of memories To encode spatial memory, place cells in the hippocampus work closely with grid cells—a special type of neuron that fires at many different locations, arranged geometrically ...