One of the most powerful assets of the brain is that it can store information as memories, allowing us to learn from our ...

New research has finally helped us understand how the brain stores long-term memories, and it's all connected to molecular ...

If you ever tried cramming all your learning in one night before the exam, you know it doesn't usually work. Surprisingly, ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising role for astrocytes—cells surrounding neurons—in deciding which memories are kept or ...

Do you remember the name of your second-grade teacher or what you ate for lunch today? Those memories may be separated by decades, but both are considered long-term memories. More than half a ...

They showed that artificially acidifying the astrocytes did not affect short-term memory but prevented memories from being ...

These memory deficits may have longer-term consequences, the researchers said. In prior studies with older adults and with ...

Asthma is associated with memory difficulties in children, and early onset of asthma may exacerbate memory deficits, according to a new study.