A recent study uncovers molecular mechanisms driving memory formation in the hippocampus, focusing on mossy fiber synapses.

A neuroimaging study of unmedicated patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) has uncovered a link between gut microbiota ...

Researchers have developed the most detailed 3D computational models of key brain regions, including the hippocampus and ...

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Resembling a seahorse, as its name implies from the Greek words “hippos” (horse) and “kampus” (sea monster), the hippocampus is a brain region crucial for memory formation. But until recently, ...

The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where ... [+] our memories are held. Rather, memory traces or engrams are represented by the ...

Tonegawa explains that the contextual information about these events – where and when they happened—is recorded in the brain’s hippocampus, whereas the emotional component of the memory is stored ...

The study demonstrates that targeted, painless electric impulses to the hippocampus and adjacent structures, a deep brain region implied in memory and spatial navigation, can improve the brain's ...