hippocampus

Researchers from the Center for Cognition and Sociality (CCS) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) recently announced the discovery of neurons that allow us to recognize others. The research team discovered that the neurons that…

The virtual environment used for all simulations. Object locations are random, except for the purple objects on the right and top arms, which represent dead ends, and…

Viruses can inflame and disrupt connections between the olfactory system, which governs the sense of smell, and the part of the brain associated with memory and learning, possibly accelerating the onset of Alzheimer's disease, according to…

What role do the stages of sleep play in forming memories? "We've known for a long time that useful learning happens during sleep," says University of Pennsylvania neuroscientist Anna Schapiro. "You encode new experiences while you're…

Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London have discovered that the hippocampus creates a vector-based representation to support animals to make optimal navigation decisions. Published today in Nature, the…

An important link has been found between the intellectual disability experienced by children with the rare disease Joubert Syndrome (JS) and defects in the hippocampus. The hippocampus is the part of the brain associated with learning and…

A black cat is deceptively similar to a panther, apart from its size. Making this distinction is crucial when being pursued, and something humans achieve thanks to pattern separation, the process in which the brain distinguishes highly…

People love stories. We find it easier to remember events when they are part of an overarching narrative. But in real life, the chapters of a story don't follow smoothly one from another. Other things happen in between. A new brain imaging…

Avoiding hippocampal exposure during prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) helped preserve cognitive function with no increased risk of brain…

The main focus of the study was to find which genes do the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) and glucocorticoid receptor (GR) interact with and in the hippocampus genome. Researchers used next generation-sequencing, bioinformatics and…