Memories
You can’t make long-term memories without damaging your brain cells
Triggering inflammation to make memories.
Improved sleep boosts memory for complicated situations
Sleep helps in forming connections between memories for multipart events.
Early mouse study shows Amnesia caused by head injury can be reversed
Memory loss attributed to head injury was not a permanent pathological event.
Trauma memories spark unique brain activity, study finds
PTSD study reveals neural distinctions between traumatic and sad memories.
Revealing childhood memories through autism brain states
Immune activation shapes infant memory development.
Rats can imagine, study
The study is fascinating and sheds light on the similarities between rat and human brains.
UMass Amherst study reveals small RNA’s vital role in fighting cancer
Let-7 boosts tumor-fighting CD8 T cells in mice.
Brain networks use electric fields to store memories
Electric fields coordinate brain networks to encode memories.
New bio-inspired neural network holds dramatically more memories
What makes a neural network remember?
Adult brain contains millions of ‘silent synapses,’ study
These immature connections may explain how the adult brain could form new memories and absorb new information.
How do our brains know when something’s different?
NIH study shows how our brains may set expectations by comparing past and present experiences.