Hippocampus

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  New Study Reveals the Brain Stores Multiple Copies of Every Memory

  Recent research sheds new light on how the brain stores and manages memories, revealing that it maintains at least three distinct copies of each memory. This study, conducted on rodents, provides valuable insights into the brain's memory encoding process and suggests that multiple types of neurons play a role in storing these memories. The research...

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  Mixing Alcohol And Energy Drinks Found To Impair Memory: Study

  Researchers at an Italian university found that mixing alcohol with energy drinks in rats leads to long-term memory and learning problems.

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  Every New Memory You Make Causes Damage To Your Brain Cells, Finds Study

  The study is based on analysis of brain data generated by giving mice a mild electric shock.

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  Flavanols In Cocoa May Boost Memory, But Buying Chocolates Won't Help: Study

  The research has been published in the US journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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  Popular Bird Species Grows Brain Tissues To Survive Brutal Winter

  The extra brain power gives black-capped chickadee supercharged memory that allows this tiny species of bird to survive in harsh winters.

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  Accident Wiped Bits Of Boy's Brain. Now, A Notebook Is His Only Memoir

  Nine years ago, Chen seriously damaged his hippocampus, a part of the brain associated with forming memories, in a traffic accident.

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  'Most Detailed' Map of Hippocampus Created, Scientists Claim

  Created using fluorescent tracers and 3D animation, the map shows structures, nerve connections and functions of the hippocampus in vivid detail.

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  Smoking And Diabetes May Clog Brain And Up Dementia Risk: 5 Foods To Manage Diabetes 

  According to the researchers smoking and diabetes may have link with increased risk of calcification -- calcium salt deposits -- in hippocampus, a brain structure important for both short- and long-term memory storage.

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  Self-Navigating AI Learns to Take Shortcuts: Study

  Navigation is considered a complex behavioural task, and in animals is partly controlled by a sort of onboard GPS driven by "grid cells" in the brain's hippocampus region.

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  Exercise Regularly To Keep Your Brain Healthy As Ever

  Few studies have definitive proof of the fact that exercising regularly can boost brain power.

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  Playing Action Video Games May Affect Your Brain Power: 5 Foods to Boost it Naturally

  There is a general perception that playing interactive video games improves your cognitive skills and boosts brain power, but these new findings reveal that habitual players of action games have less grey matter in their hippocampus which is a major part of the brain associated with cognition.

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  The Brain's Need for Glucose: Low Levels Could Predict Alzheimer's Risk

  A study shows that decline in glucose levels in hippocampus, a region in the brain, appears in the early stages of mild cognitive impairment, predicting Alzheimer's.

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  Too Much Brain Activity May Impair Memory, Attention

  Abnormally increased activity in the brain's hippocampus impairs our memory and attention, and can be more detrimental to cognitive function than reduced activity or a lesion, a new study suggests.

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  Brain Size May Determine Response To Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment

  Patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who have a larger brain region are more likely to respond to exposure-based therapy -- a type of cognitive behavioural therapy -- for the mental health condition, finds a new research.

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  Midnight Eating May Impair Memory

  Simply adjusting the time when food is made available alters the molecular clock in the hippocampus and can alter the cognitive performance.