New research reveals neurons in the hippocampus that store memories of sugar and fat, influencing eating habits and metabolic ...

Researchers identify distinct neuronal populations within the dorsal HPC that respond to certain nutrients and influence obesity.

Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” ...

A study reveals that London taxi drivers prioritize complex and distant junctions during their initial "offline thinking" ...

Brains are nothing like computers and human cognition operates in fundamentally different ways to current artificial intelligence systems. Human thought processes are truly unique and much more ...

An international team of scientists, including a principal investigator in neuroscience from the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, has analysed the ...

Sugar triggers the brain's reward system, creating stronger food memories that increase cravings. Over time, this leads to ...

Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus ... are typically located in the left hemisphere. The right hemisphere controls ...

A study finds that female mice using only a maternal X chromosome experience faster brain aging, leading to memory loss.

Stanford Medicine scientists are generating a periodic table of sorts for psychiatric disorders, providing a better ...

They found that the hippocampus in bilinguals with ... Head Injury Study with penetrating traumatic brain injury to determine if the location of shrapnel damage to their brains influenced risk ...