Questions like how it feels to die, what do people think about in their last moments etc., are things we have all wondered about. Studies have shown that there is some brain activity right before it ...

A new study explored how the hippocampus and insula interact during the encoding of emotional memories in humans.

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating ...

When it comes to mental health, most treatments for conditions like depression or anxiety come with caveats. Medications work ...

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood.

Previous studies have mainly explored how the hippocampus supports individual memory processes—like recognizing new information, forming memories, and recalling them—but how the hippocampus ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience on June 12 zoomed in to the single-cell level to investigate how physical activity skews the gene-expression signatures in the dentate gyrus of the ...