You Can Mentally Time Travel—And Supercharge Your Memories
Anyone who survived the ’80s and ’90s has gone through the aggravating ritual of rewinding a video or…
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
Patient recruitment Experiments were conducted according to protocol guidelines approved by the Institutional Review Board for Baylor College…
Estrogen Levels at the Moment of Trauma Predict PTSD
Summary: Why do two people experience the same traumatic event, yet only one develops PTSD? A new study…
Moderate Cannabis Use May Protect the Aging Brain
Summary: New research has uncovered a surprising link between cannabis use and brain health in middle-aged and older…
Hippocampus Predicts Rewards by Reorganizing Memories
Summary: A new preclinical study reveals that the hippocampus does more than just store memories; it actively reorganizes…
Brain Health: 3 science-backed exercises that can help grow ‘new brain cells’ |
Mounting evidence in the past three decades have proven that adult humans can form new brain cells in…
Bipolar Mood Shifts Linked to Insulin Signaling in the Pancreas
Summary: A new study uncovers a pancreas–hippocampus feedback loop that may help explain mood swings in bipolar disorder.…
How the Brain Reactivates Emotional Experiences
Key Questions Answered:Q: Why do emotional memories feel more vivid than neutral ones?A: Because emotional memory encoding involves…
Your Brain Maps the Same Path Differently Every Time
Summary: New research shows that our brain’s internal map rewrites itself every time we navigate a familiar environment.…
Genetic links between type 2 diabetes and subcortical brain structure revealed
Recently, the team led by Chief Physician Quan Zhang and Associate Professor Feng Liu at Tianjin Medical University…