Forget the "willpower" myth, new research identifies the brain circuit that links memory to appetite. Your past experiences and brain chemistry dictate when and where you feel hungry.

Memories are thought to be encoded in the brain as enduring physical and chemical changes, or engrams. Although recent technological advances have enabled substantial progress in our understanding of ...

The benefits of physical activity on health are widely accepted, and those on cognitive capacity are increasingly well known. There may, however, be exceptions. By studying the effects of sport on the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers conducted a study of 431 adults with multiple sclerosis. Data showed lesion volume and damage were ...

Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists discovered cells within the brain's hippocampus that store memories of specific locations. These cells also play an important role in storing memories of events, ...

Schematic model showing how memory is consolidated in the prefrontal cortex and how circuitry through the amygdala shifts as hippocampal engram cells become silent and cortical engrams become active.

Virginia Tech scientists Shannon Farris (left) and Sharon Swanger of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have received support from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Alzheimer’s and Related ...

Both presenilin-1 or the less-studied presenilin-2 can act as the catalytic subunit of γ-secretase, the enzyme responsible for churning out Aβ peptides. A new study, published November 29 in Nature ...

A computational model explains how place cells in the hippocampus can be recruited to form any kind of episodic memory, even when there's no spatial component. Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists ...