A new study reveals that neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. A ...

In recent years, some scientists and advocates have warned that playing contact sports like football and hockey may increase ...

Every day, our brain takes countless fleeting experiences - from walks on the beach to presentations at work - and transforms ...

Scientists at UCSF combined advanced brain-network modeling, genetics, and imaging to reveal how tau protein travels through ...

New research shows how the brain replays and organizes memories, even compressing long experiences into short, fixed-length ...

Findings suggest that Alzheimer’s risk genes drive tau buildup and spread through both network-based and independent mechanisms.

A new study finds rare neural stem cells in the adult human hippocampus, suggesting some brains can generate new neurons into ...

An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory. But how do memories last when the molecules that ...

"We have now been able to identify these cells of origin, which confirms that there is an ongoing formation of neurons in the hippocampus of the adult brain," says Jonas Frisen, Professor of Stem Cell ...

A groundbreaking study shows that the human hippocampus continues producing new neurons well into late adulthood.

Researchers at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University discovered that hippocampal place cells in black-capped chickadees fire when the bird merely gazes at a distant ...