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 ...

Jadhav studies a region of the brain called the hippocampus, a pair of C-shaped fingers of tissue nestled in the center of the cranium. Countless memory circuits start in these structures and meander ...

“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 ...

it is essential to unravel the complicated wiring of the memory circuits composed by the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex," said Shinya Ohara, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of ...

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 ...

Acting as a kind of neurological scratch pad, the hippocampus stores ... Retrieving a memory is a matter of activating one of these circuits, coaxing the original stimulus back to life.

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 ...