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·October 6, 2025·6 min read

Brain’s Shape Could Reveal the Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

A groundbreaking study reveals that aging alters not just the size but the shape of the human brain, reshaping regions in ways linked to memory and reasoning decline. Researchers found that as people age, the lower and front areas of the brain expand outward, while the upper and back regions compress inward.

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·September 25, 2024·4 min read

How the Brain Encodes Time and Experiences

A new study reveals how specific brain cells in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex encode time and experiences, helping us form memories and predict future outcomes. These neurons fire in patterns reflecting the order of events, even replaying them after the experience is over. This groundbreaking discovery provides insight into how the brain integrates "what" and "when" information to form lasting memories.

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·March 13, 2023·6 min read

Imagination Makes Us Human

By considering brain areas associated with imagination, researchers are able to look back over millions of years to find out how imagination first evolved in humans.

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·November 6, 2022·6 min read

A Novel Instructive Role for the Entorhinal Cortex

Researchers have identified a new type of synaptic plasticity they call behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP). The study reveals how the entorhinal cortex sends instructive signals to the hippocampus and directs it to specifically reorganize the specific location and activity of a neural subset to achieve altered behavior in response to changes in environment and spatial cues.

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·July 26, 2022·4 min read

Changes in the Retina Can Be Linked to Parts of the Brain of Healthy Subjects at Risk of Alzheimer’s

In cognitively healthy people with a genetic risk for Alzheimer's, retinal changes have been associated with alterations in the entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, and lingual gyrus. Researchers say retinal changes can be used to track changes in brain structures associated with Alzheimer's in those with genetic risk factors.

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·April 13, 2022·4 min read

Why Certain Brain Neurons Are Vulnerable to Degeneration

Wolframin-expressing excitatory neurons (WFS1) are more vulnerable in the entorhinal cortex.WFS1 may reduce tau-pathology and neurodegeneration via the regulation of stress response to the abnormal buildup of tau aggregates and the downstream protein degradation pathway.

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·December 6, 2021·4 min read

Study Find First in Human Evidence of How Memories Form

Researchers have identified the characteristics of over 100 memory-sensitive neurons that play a key role in how memories are recalled in the brain.

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·September 22, 2021·4 min read

Sniffing Out How Associative Memories Are Formed

Dopamine-controlled fan cells in the lateral entorhinal cortex are required for the formation of associative memories.

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·September 16, 2021·3 min read

Drug Targets for Memory Enhancement

Researchers identified specific receptors for acetylcholine that reroute information flow through memory circuits in the hippocampus. The findings could have implications for the development of drugs to help enhance or protect memory from diseases associated with cognitive decline.

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·September 3, 2021·4 min read

New Model for Solving Novel Problems Uses Mental Map

The cognitive map allows people to compute on the fly with limited information to solve abstract problems.

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·August 7, 2021·3 min read

Switching System Used in Information Processing and Memory Revealed

A new system within the brain uses for information processing and memory storage has been discovered. The findings provide novel insight into how the brain functions.

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·June 17, 2021·3 min read

Depression and Tau Deposits Seen in Subset of Middle-Aged Persons

Depressed middle-aged carriers of the APOEe4 Alzheimer's genetic variant are at risk of developing tau accumulations in brain areas associated with emotion and memory.

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entorhinal cortex

Brain’s Shape Could Reveal the Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

How the Brain Encodes Time and Experiences

Imagination Makes Us Human

A Novel Instructive Role for the Entorhinal Cortex

Changes in the Retina Can Be Linked to Parts of the Brain of Healthy Subjects at Risk of Alzheimer’s

Why Certain Brain Neurons Are Vulnerable to Degeneration

Study Find First in Human Evidence of How Memories Form

Sniffing Out How Associative Memories Are Formed

Drug Targets for Memory Enhancement

New Model for Solving Novel Problems Uses Mental Map

Switching System Used in Information Processing and Memory Revealed

Depression and Tau Deposits Seen in Subset of Middle-Aged Persons

Brain Conductors Find Precise Connection to Target Cells via Protein Handshake

Multilingualism Calculator Reveals True Language Strengths

Brain Blends Fast and Slow Signals to Shape Human Thought

Immune Signal Ratio May Predict Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

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