Stimulating a Brain Pathway Reduces Depressive Behavior: Mouse Study
Stimulating the Ent circuit helped improve depressive behaviors in mouse models of major depressive disorder, researchers report.... Read More...
entorhinal cortex
Can the Healthy Brain Offer Clues to Curing Alzheimer’s?
A new paper reports fully investigating the brain before the onset of dementia may herald clues for developing new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.... Read More...
Why Older People Might Lose Their Way
Researchers report the firing patterns of grid cells are less stable in older adults. This, they say, could be why older people have more problems with spatial navigation than younger people.... Read More...
High Resolution Brain Imaging Provides Clues to Age Related Memory Loss
The decline of signalling in the anterolateral entorhinal cortex has been linked to memory loss associated with aging, a new neuroimaging study reveals.... Read More...
A New Theory of Memory Formation
Researchers propose a new theory of memory formation, reporting memory storage does not rely on the strengthening of connection between memory cells, but on the pattern of connections that form within the first few minutes of an event.... Read More...
Brain Takes Seconds to Switch Modes During Tasks
Switching between operational modes occurs dynamically according to the demands of the task at hand, a new study reports.... Read More...
Memory For Details Matures Gradually
Contrary to popular assumption that areas of the brain responsible for memory are fully matured by age six, researchers report the maturation process continues until the age of at least 14.... Read More...
Highly Precise Wiring in the Cerebral Cortex
Researchers from Max Planck Institute have identified a neural connectivity pattern in the medial entorhinal cortex that appears to assist with navigation.... Read More...
How We Recall the Past
Researchers have identified a neural circuit that is critical for memory retrieval. ... Read More...
Smell Test Could Track Alzheimer’s Progression
McGill university researchers have devised a new odor identification test that could help doctors predict those at risk of Alzheimer's and track the progression of the disease.... Read More...
Playing With Your Brain: The Negative Impact of Action Video Games
A neuroimaging study reveals response learners show a decrease in hippocampal gray matter after playing action based video games for 90 hours. ... Read More...
New Model for the Origin of Grid Cells
A new study theorizes the development of grid cells depends upon the synaptic input from place cells.... Read More...