Can caffeine save your social life? New research shows how caffeine restores social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by targeting the hippocampal CA2 region. Learn about the molecular mechanisms ...

Students who test themselves on new material remember about 50% more than students who just re-read their notes. That's the ...

Prospective memory (PM) research investigates the cognitive mechanisms that enable individuals to remember and execute future intentions. This field integrates insights from cognitive psychology, ...

We become forgetful as we age. This is often seen as a universal truth, but in fact it is far from universal: some people ...

Stress is the brain’s natural response to fear, but it often disrupts memory in the process, potentially impacting the possibility of memory loss. When preparing for a big presentation or taking a ...

Recent psychological research reveals that certain forms of strong memory can make people more prone to distortion, anxiety, ...

Researchers have investigated how sleep affects memory. They found a link between breathing and the emergence of certain brain activity patterns in sleep that are associated with the reactivation of ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

University of Reading researchers in the U.K. study memory formation and destruction from a robot controlling its own movements with rodent brain matter. In a software-driven world, it's easy to ...

There is debate about when white matter was first identified and named. Now known as glia, which Koob (2009) points out is the Greek word for glue, some research indicates that Rudolf Virchow, a ...