Learn how theta activity may tag certain experiences during learning, helping the brain choose what to process during sleep.

Brain cells and chemical signals could hold the missing piece of memory that today's silicon computers cannot reproduce ...

The brain may "tag" experiences during learning to better consolidate memories of them during sleep, according to a study ...

Why do we remember certain moments while forgetting others? Every day, our minds are bombarded with thousands of pieces of information, yet our brains have a limited capacity to consolidate these ...

While we’re asleep at night, our brain is doing something incredible. The hippocampus and the neocortex, two of its key regions, talk back and forth, processing information for long-term ...

New research provides the first physiological evidence from inside the human brain supporting the dominant scientific theory on how the brain consolidates memory during sleep. Further, deep-brain ...

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A recent study has found major depressive disorder may disrupt the process of production of new neurons (brain cells linked ...

Forgotten where you put your keys again? Blanked on your neighbor’s name mid-conversation? While these momentary mental hiccups happen to everyone, they can trigger that nagging worry about what they ...

Dear Doctors: I am 82 years old and in good physical condition. However, I have memory loss. What do you think of the brain supplements that are advertised on television?

If you've ever had trouble finding your keys or remembering what you had for breakfast, you know that short-term memory is far from perfect. For people who've had a traumatic brain injury (TBI), ...