What’s a false memory? Psychologists explain how your brain can lie.

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

Scientists Pinpoint New Drug Target for Devastating “Brain on Fire” Disease

A new study reveals a critical vulnerability in a brain receptor targeted by a rare autoimmune disease. Researchers have ...
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Why diagrams help students learn better and boost scores in Biology board exams

Diagram-based learning helps students understand complex Biology concepts, improve recall, and perform better in board exams. By combining visual memory with active learning, diagrams simplify ...

New Brain Study Challenges Decades of Memory Research

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Episodic and semantic memory retrievals involve the same areas of the brain, according to new work

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...
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Brain Cleanup Cells May Accidentally Trigger Alzheimer’s by Eating Your Synapses

“By the time we examine an autopsied brain-tissue sample, a pathologist will have rinsed it with alcohol, removing lipids,” ...

Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory – here’s how

A sense of self-awareness is strongly involved in episodic memory. It’s the feeling of personally remembering.

Research reveals how the brain turns experience into memory—with help from a tiny protein

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...
New Scientist

We're getting closer to growing a brain in a lab dish

Clumps of cells known as organoids are helping us to understand the brain, and the latest version comes equipped with ...