It's been four decades, but a sea monster has been returned to the state after being stolen from Quassy Amusement and ...

The peak in that circuit was in a brain region called the hippocampus, which is believed to be involved in constructing ...

Researchers found that the hippocampus processes social behavior in fruit bats. Cells map social connections, revealing ...

By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Andrew Pines, MD, MA, a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a researcher in the ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are ...

Building on more than two decades of research, a study by MIT neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports a new way to treat pathology and symptoms of fragile X syndrome, ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new—and important or just "background noise." ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown brain circuit that rapidly evaluates sensory information by integrating memories and emotions.

New research provides the first direct evidence that brain lesions causing secondary psychosis map to a common brain circuit ...