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·February 25, 2019·3 min read

High Fructose Corn Syrup Consumption Linked to Bipolar Like Behaviors: Adolescent Rat Study

Researchers report adolescent rats exposed to high fructose corn syrup in their diets were more prone to experience symptoms associated with bipolar disorder.

Image shows diagram of how the hippocmapus recalls events.

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·June 8, 2017·4 min read

Hippocampus Can Organize Memories for Events as Well as Places

A new study reports the hippocampus puts events into sequence by changing the neural code in the rat brain.

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·April 14, 2018·5 min read

Hippocampus May Hold Clues For Anxiety and Depression

Researchers reveal specific parts of the hippocampus may play a key role in emotional regulation.

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·February 18, 2019·3 min read

How Animals Remember and Find Their Way Back to Food Sources

Study reveals the hippocampus may overlay existing mental maps with information about reward and hazard derived from food found in specific locations.

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·January 16, 2017·4 min read

How Bats Remember Directions

Researchers reveal how a specific group of hippocampal neurons encode the directions to a destination.

Image shows the location of the hippocmpus in the human brain.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 6, 2017·5 min read

How Learning in the Present Shapes Future Learning

A new study reveals how neurons in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampal neurons work together to help guide future learning.

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·February 9, 2022·3 min read

How Left and Right Hippocampal CA1 Regions in the Mouse Brain Talk With Each Other

Researchers have uncovered neural circuitry that allows the CA1 region of the hippocampus to communicate with its counterpart in the opposite hemisphere despite there being no connection between them.

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·August 24, 2019·4 min read

How memories form and fade

Stable memories are encoded by teams of neurons firing in synchrony, providing redundancy that enables the memory to persist over time.

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·August 23, 2016·4 min read

How Sleep Deprivation Harms Memory

Researchers report sleep deprivation may lead to a loss of connectivity between hippocampal neurons.

Image shows a diagram of the hippocampus.

Featured Neuroscience

·May 23, 2016·6 min read

How The Brain Connects Memories Across Time: Mouse Study

Researchers report they have discovered how the mouse brain links different memories over time.

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·August 29, 2018·7 min read

How the Brain Experiences Time

Researchers have identified a network of cells in the entorhinal cortex that appear to play a key role into putting experience into a temporal context.