Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and The Hospital for Sick Children have found that the pace at which a brain cell activates a key protein, CREB (a transcription factor that typically increases the production of other proteins...

Neurobiologists have discovered a mechanism by which the constantly changing brain retains memories. They have found that the brain co-opts DNA methylation, the same machinery by which cells stably alter their genes to specialize during embryonic...

European scientists have isolated a receptor molecule called TrkB that initiates a signalling pathway for long-term potentiation (LTP) in the brain of a living mouse....

New recordings of electrical activity in the brain may explain a major part of its function, including how it consolidates daily memories, why it needs to dream and how it constructs models of the world to guide behavior. The finding by MIT resear...

The part of the brain responsible for the way we understand words, meanings and concepts has been revealed as the anterior temporal lobe. The findings may one day help researchers treat dementia by targeting gene therapy or administering drugs dir...

Scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center have discovered a molecular mechanism that maintains memories in the brain. In an article in Science magazine, they demonstrate that by inhibiting the molecule they can erase long-term memories, much as you...