Learning a musical instrument later in life may help keep the brain younger for longer. In a four-year study, older adults ...

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Today, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences Sydney Bourtros answers a child’s question: How does the brain make and ...

Inside the brain is a dense network of neurons that receive, process, and relay information. The synapse, where neurons meet, ...

The same memory can feel vivid and accessible one moment, yet stubbornly out of reach the next - even when the memory itself remains intact.

Scientists have long known that being obese increases the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. What remains unclear is ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

Short-term memories are thought to be formed deep within the brain in structures such as the hippocampus, but little is known ...