Every time you replay a favorite story from your past, you are not just pressing “play” on a mental recording, you are quietly editing it. The science of memory now suggests that each recall can ...

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

At the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers shared encouraging news for breast cancer survivors dealing with ...

It’s late Monday night as Emma Heib situates herself on the couch to study. As a junior Electronic Media and Broadcasting ...

A new study shows that precisely manipulating brain activity during sleep can help mice retain memories that would normally fade, offering a potential pathway for treating memory loss conditions.

Manipulating mouse brains during sleep improved their ability to remember new experiences that would normally be forgotten—a ...

Feline dementia mirrors human Alzheimer’s, hinting that cats may help reveal how memory fades — and how it could be restored.

Dopamine neurons—the cells that drive reward and motivation while we're awake—become surprisingly active during nonrapid eye movement sleep right after we learn something new.