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A singing group that supports people diagnosed with dementia has celebrated its first anniversary. Volunteers and members of ...

Our brain's remarkable ability to form and store memories has long fascinated scientists, yet most of the microscopic mechanisms behind memory and learning processes remain a mystery.

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving.

Complex protein interactions at synapses are essential for memory formation in our brains, but the mechanisms behind these ...

A new scientific breakthrough may soon offer hope for people affected by Alzheimer’s disease. A group of researchers in Spain ...

Reacting to the findings of the trials, which have been published in the journal Nature, Claire Bale, associate director of ...

From this age, the human hippocampus can encode short-term memory traces, according to a pair of American researchers in the ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

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