As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to events and the activity they cause in the brain. Neuroscientists believe that ...

A new review in Molecular Biology Reports details how the polyphenol resveratrol may protect and enhance synaptic plasticity ...

Why is it that we can remember today what we learned yesterday?Hearing someone's voice can suddenly bring back a scene from the past. When performing an action we have practiced many times, our bodies ...

Neurons are important, but they are not everything. Indeed, it is "cartilage," in the form of clusters of extracellular matrix molecules called chondroitin sulfates, located in the outside nerve cells ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

Why do we remember some things better in the morning and others at night? A new study in mice suggests the answer may lie in the wiring itself. Researchers at the University of Manchester have shown ...

Neuromorphic devices, which are designed to emulate aspects of biological neural networks, are promising candidates for ...