Tag: Hippocampus

August 12, 2020

Seeking to unravel the mystery of how animals follow scent, a team of scientists from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the University of Colorado Boulder and Columbia University, have won a grant to peer deeply inside the brain […]

September 26, 2018

As we age, our memory is likely to become less reliable. Although this is considered to be an inevitable part of growing old, scientists are keen to understand how it might be curtailed. As the population ages, understanding ways to […]

July 27, 2018

A small population of brain cells deep in a memory-making region of the brain controls the production of new neurons and may have a role in common brain disorders, according to a study from scientists at the University of North […]

June 11, 2018

As reported in the journal Neuroscience, the study shed light on how a protein called RGS8 may be involved in depressive behavior. Until now, scientists have thought the monoamine hypothesis explains how depression arises. This hypothesis is based on the […]

November 27, 2017

New findings will help to identify the genetic causes of brain disorders: researchers at the Universities of Basel, Bonn and Cologne have presented a systematic catalog of specific variable locations in the genome that influence gene activity in the human […]

May 31, 2016

Just as members of an orchestra need a conductor to stay on tempo, neurons in the brain need well-timed waves of activity to organize memories across time. In the hippocampus–the brain’s memory center–temporal ordering of the neural code is important […]