Long-term memory emerges from a sequence of molecular programs that sort, stabilize, and reinforce important experiences.

New research shows that long-term memory is not stored by a single molecular switch, but by a sequence of timed genetic programs unfolding across different brain regions.

Researchers developed a novel “closed-loop” system that delivered electrical pulses in a brain region to synchronize brain activity recorded from another region in the brain to improve memory. Among ...

A study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine may change the way we understand memory. Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of neurons that respond to learning events and ...

Get enough sleep before an exam.” Yet countless students still stay up late revising, believing that squeezing in a few more ...

During sleep, the brain strengthens memories it expects to use in the future. Now, scientists say they've found a way to enhance this process. This research might someday help people with memory loss.

The human brain is constantly flooded with sights, sounds and sensations, yet only a fraction of those experiences become ...

As far back as Plato and Aristotle, people believed that our memories had to be physical somethings that were stored somewhere in the brain. But only in modern times have we learned much about what ...

The researchers found that measures of obstructive sleep apnea-related hypoxemia significantly predicted global white matter hyperintensity volume of the brain, which was driven by hypoxemia severity ...

What happens when you sleep? While you're sleeping, the brain strengthens memories that it expects to use in the future. Now scientists say they've found a way to enhance that process. NPR's Jon ...