Recent neuroscience studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have enhanced our understanding of how sleep is related to learning and memory. A study just reported in the journal ...
As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how ...
Schematic model showing how memory is consolidated in the prefrontal cortex and how circuitry through the amygdala shifts as hippocampal engram cells become silent and cortical engrams become active.
Researchers have found that low-intensity sound waves directed through the skull can help mice shed conditioned fear ...
Long-term, heavy cannabis use has been linked to changes in the prefrontal cortex, which plays a key role in executive ...
Fear response to traumatic or threatening situations helps us evade or escape danger. At the same time fear response is learned in the form of association between stimulus or situation and the ...