memory formation

The activation of young brain cells in adult mice is necessary not just for forming memories, but consolidating them during rapid eye movement sleep, a study shows.

The Østby sisters, one a neuroscientist and the other a writer, explore the uncharted territory of memory in their new book.

A new technique reveals certain neuronal connections grow larger and denser when memories are made.

To tease apart brain regions involved in forming versus remembering memories, scientists engineered mice whose brain cells could be manipulated and tagged.

The same populations of brain cells encode memories that occur close together in time, according to new research.

Scientists identify the brain circuits with which newly hatched nematodes form and retrieve a lifelong aversive olfactory memory.

Researchers create a link between a location and a reward in sleeping mice.

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine. Age: 39

Transcription factor levels dictate which neurons in a network store a memory.

Researchers deliver bursts of light to specific cells in the mouse hippocampus to implant false memories about a fearful event.

Retrospective carbon dating of human hippocampal cells confirms substantial adult neurogenesis and suggests that the process contributes to brain function.

For the first time, researchers visualize zebrafish memory retrieval in real time.

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Researchers weaken the memories of drug use in recovering addicts.

Scientists use molecular techniques to reawaken memories in mice.