The hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with information associated with spatial navigation and memory. For example, you are driving and despite the changing environment of different cars ...

Imagine you're navigating a city like New York, or any other that's laid out on a grid. Suppose you run into a roadblock as you're heading north. How do you know that you can turn to your left, say, ...

Results from research aimed at parsing the cellular, molecular, and behavioral components of spatial recognition offer new insight into the neuroscience of memory-guided navigation. When you are lost ...

A new study opens the door towards better understanding of the neural circuitry and dynamic mechanisms controlling memory as well of the role of an essential element of the hippocampus -- a sub-region ...

According to new research from the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, experiencing something and remembering it later is not a neural ‘direct flight’. The pathway in the brain's hippocampus ...

Abundant plaques, especially in the thalamus and subiculum. Aggregated, hyperphosphorylated tau tangles. Neuronal loss, especially of neuropeptide Y (NPY) neurons in the hippocampus and subiculum.

When we have a new experience, the memory of that event is stored in a neural circuit that connects several parts of the hippocampus and other brain structures. Each cluster of neurons may store ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Research in animals has revealed new information about how animals and humans may store and retrieve short-term memories, say researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist ...