Blindness itself might become, at least in certain cases, partially reversible. This potential future stems from one of the ...

A specific extract from the root of the American ginseng plant protects brain connections and improves memory in aged rats.

Summary: Astrocytes, star-shaped non-neuronal cells, serve as active gatekeepers of long-term memory stability. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Changes in the synapses between neurons is responsible for learning and memory. KTSDESIGN/Science Photo Library via Getty Images ...

When cells are healthy, we don't expect them to suddenly change cell types. A skin cell on your hand won't naturally morph into a brain cell, and vice versa. That's thanks to epigenetic memory, which ...

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, creative process that reconstructs the past each time we reach for it.

Janine Kwapis, left, and graduate student Chad Brunswick identify individual neurons, in green, in the mouse hippocampus, in blue, that were activated when that mouse formed a memory. UNIVERSITY PARK, ...