Researchers found that up to 80% of excitatory synapses in the hippocampus—a critical structure for learning and memory—of newborns may be silent, compared to fewer than 30% in adulthood.

Synapses are the pathways between neurons and are routes for creating learning and memory. But if those “old” synapses don’t disconnect or reduce, it can hinder developing new learning and ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein's special role in getting ...

Herskowitz says this has an enormous implication. “Even in older individuals, people age 80, 90 or 95, there is still enough plasticity in synapse formation to retain memory. This means a therapy to ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute have developed a new class of programmable ...

It’s like a learned memory. And when that happens, you can experience a sensation without an underlying cause. You’ve probably heard of amputees who have pain in a limb that doesn’t exist. Well, we ...