Amyloid proteins are typically considered bad guys, but researchers been investigating whether a version may be key to forming long-term memories.

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

Dementia is a term used to describe memory loss, impaired reasoning, difficulties communicating and other mental impairments ...

Researchers say human versions of identified fruit fly chaperone proteins have been implicated in schizophrenia.

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

A new study reveals that certain brain regions are more active in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...