New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

Neurons communicate with one another by synaptic connections, where information is exchanged from one neuron to its neighbor. These connections are not static, but are continuously modulated in ...

Immediate-early genes (IEGs), including c-Fos, are integral to the brain's response to stimuli. Initially identified as a proto-oncogene, c-Fos is essential for neural activity, synaptic plasticity, ...

Can caffeine save your social life? New research shows how caffeine restores social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by targeting the hippocampal CA2 region. Learn about the molecular mechanisms ...

Sleep loss selectively disrupts memory-related brain circuits and behavior, while caffeine restores synaptic plasticity and ...

How does dopamine control both movement and learning? New research reveals that acetylcholine acts as a "switch" for dopamine ...

The choice of rodent strain for neuroscientific research is often considered a secondary factor when selecting rat or mouse models for functional studies of ...

Scientists have long studied the role of dopamine, a chemical in the brain that helps control learning and movement, in order ...