We often fail at the simplest tasks. It’s not stupidity, it’s because your brain is ancient, but your behavior is not.

A structure deep in the brain, the hippocampus, plays a central role in forming new episodic memories (events and experiences ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell ...

Meta-analysis indicates that network-targeted noninvasive brain stimulation consistently enhances memory function supported by the hippocampal network, thus providing robust evidence that specific ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...