Boosting mitochondrial calcium by inhibiting the LETM1 protein enhances long-term memory formation in flies and mice.

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

An international team led by Jaime de Juan-Sanz at the Paris Brain Institute has shown that slightly increasing the metabolic capacity of neurons can enhance long-term memory in both fruit flies and ...

The smell of my grandmother’s home hit me before I was even through the door. Something between talcum powder and the ...

Memory can be broken down into multiple types, including long-term memory, short-term memory, explicit and implicit memory, and working memory. Memory is a process in your brain that enables you to ...

After treatment, the mice’s memories were essentially shunted back into a younger state. The researchers found that reprogrammed engrams displayed molecular behavior of more youthful cells. Using a ...

This video explains how memories form and persist, exploring the roles of neurons, synapses, and brain regions involved in learning, recall, and long-term storage.

Amyloid proteins are typically considered bad guys, but researchers been investigating whether a version may be key to ...

Sleep works magic on memory. You might’ve felt these frustrations before: Trying to learn a guitar riff, shoot a free-throw, or nail a difficult phrase in a new language, but despite hours of practice ...

We found that STFP memory formation is mediated by the parallel transfer of social information from the accessory olfactory bulb directly to the COApm, and of olfactory information from the main ...