Two types of neurons in the hippocampus either store memories for sugar or drive fat cravings, shaping food intake and ...

A study of young adults in Spain found that those who engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity tend to have larger ...

Previous studies found that the consolidation of memories could be supported by a process known as hippocampal replay. In other words, they suggested that neurons in the hippocampus 'replay ...

"And as I found this one, I found many others later on, and basically it was very clear that in an area called the hippocampus that is known to be critical for memory, we have neurons that ...

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for the discovery of "place cells": neurons in the hippocampus that activate only when an animal is at a certain spot in a room, called the "place field." ...

Using a mathematical model, scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and ...

Researchers from the Slovak Academy of Sciences investigated the impact of maternal immune activation (MIA) on hippocampal pyramidal neurons in newborn rat offspring and found that prenatal ...