How the Brain Combines Memories to Solve Problems
Using AI technology, researchers provide new insight into how the human brain connects individual episodic memories to help solve problems.... Read More...
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Heartbeat Paces Learning
Researchers report learning rates are enhanced when conditioned stimuli is presented during resting phase of the cardiac cycle.... Read More...
Resynchronizing Neurons to Erase Schizophrenia
Researchers report that by increasing the excitability of a subpopulation of hippocampal inhibitory neurons, certain behavioral symptoms associated with schizophrenia can be suppressed.... Read More...
How Brain Cells Work Together to Remember and Imagine Places
Researchers have created a computational model that helps explain how mental images drawn from memory can be explained by the firing of specific neurons.... Read More...
How the Brain Forgets on Purpose
Researchers implicate the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in in our ability to actively forget a memory. ... Read More...
Exercise Generates New Neurons and Improves Cognition in Alzheimer’s: Mouse Study
Researchers report exercise can promote adult hippocampal neurogenesis and improve cognition in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. The study identifies ways to mimic the beneficial effects of experience through pharmacological and gene therapy. ... Read More...
Bravery Cells Found in the Hippocampus
OLM cells in the hippocampus play a key role in risk taking behavior and anxiety, researchers report. ... Read More...
Cannabidiol Shows Sustained Effects Against Depression for Seven Days: Rat Study
A study using rat models of depression reveals a single dose of the cannabis extract CBD can help to reduce symptoms of depression for up to one week. Researchers say cannabidiol appears to activate mechanisms that help repair neural circuitry in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, which get damaged as a result of depression.... Read More...
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.... Read More...
An Ion Channel Differentiates Newborn and Mature Neurons in the Adult Brain
Researchers report newborn granule cells in the dentate gyrus become less excitable after three weeks. The loss of excitability is crucial for the functioning of mature neurons.... Read More...
Skills and Learning Improved by Closed Loop Electrical Brain Stimulation During Sleep
Researchers report transcranial alternating current stimulation applied during sleep can help accelerate learning, memory and skill acquisition.... Read More...
Rewiring the Brain to Fight Epilepsy
Sema4D not only reduces the severity of seizures in mouse models of epilepsy, it also helps to increase the number of inhibitory synapses in the brains of the animals, researchers report. ... Read More...