In this adapted excerpt from "How to Change a Memory," author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez recounts the events that led ...

Boston University professor Steve Ramirez promoted his new book, which dives into his experiences with grief after the death ...

Scientists at M.I.T. have managed to implant mice with false memories. They told one mouse that Sharon Stone was his wife and that he should dissolve his father's compa—oh wait, never mind. Seriously, ...

Our experiences leave traces in the brain, stored in small groups of cells called engrams. Engrams are thought to hold the ...

The study shows that communication between the entorhinal cortex and the hippocampus’s CA3 region helps mice form stable maps of places.

Place cells in the hippocampus integrate signals from other brain regions to create and adapt memories of locations, shedding ...

Research from scientists at RIKEN highlights the role of Fos signaling in memory formation and recall in response to unpleasant experiences.

Every memory you ever had is in some respects a hallucination. You can see a scene, feel a feeling, even smell a smell at a time and in a context in which they didn’t occur at all. That’s both good ...

As we get older, the essential cleaning processes that our brains need to keep functioning start to break down and fail. In new research, scientists have figured out how to boost waste removal cycles ...

Scientists have been working to decode the magic of the human brain for decades. Despite everything that we've learned over the years, there are still new discoveries to be made. And now, a new study ...