Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have demonstrated that ...

Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It develops slowly over time and affects memory, thinking, and behavior. Many people first notice small changes, such as forgetting names or ...

Working memory is a cognitive function that is essential for carrying out everyday activities and temporarily retaining information.

What is the best time to study? A new study uses Aplysia (sea slugs) to show that a 24-hour interval between learning events ...

Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

Gut microbiome changes may drive age-related memory loss via inflammation and disrupted brain signaling, but interventions in mice show this process can be reversed.

Working memory is a cognitive function that is essential for carrying out everyday activities and temporarily retaining ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...