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

Researchers identified a chaperone protein, Funes, that triggers controlled amyloid formation in fruit fly neurons to ...

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

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

A recent study in mice suggests that microglia, immune cells found in the brain, may play a role in early memory loss, or ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

Discover how amyloid proteins help form long-term memories according to new research from the Stowers Institute.

A new study in mice suggests that memory problems in Alzheimer’s disease may stem from a breakdown in how the brain replays recent experiences during periods of rest. The research was carried out by s ...

Alzheimer’s may destroy memory by flipping a single molecular switch that tells neurons to prune their own connections. Researchers found that both amyloid beta and inflammation converge on the same ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly ...