As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

A University of Iowa research team is aiming to treat conditions such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress ...

A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) has discovered that early and sustained cognitive stimulation can help preserve brain connectivity and memory in ...

October 19, 2011 — New studies in animal models show not only that stimulating targeted regions of the brain improves spatial memory but also that neurogenesis explains, at least in part, this ...

Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier – sometime around the third decade of life. In the earliest of ...

Lead author Shrey Grover administering brain stimulation to Jim Soter, a participant in the study. Source: Credit: Robert Reinhart, Provided for publication by Boston University Neuroscientists at ...

Illustration of the basolateral amygdala (blue), hippocampus (yellow), and perirhinal cortex (pink) and electrical signals from each region during a recognition test trial. Source: Cory Inman, Emory ...

Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before ...

A team of researchers has shown that noninvasive electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve through the ear can reverse memory deficits caused by acute stress in mice, pinpointing a specific protein ...

Study provides new evidence that sensory stimulation of gamma-frequency brain rhythm may promote broad-based restorative neurological health response. Studies by a growing number of labs have ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Elizabeth Riley, Cornell University (THE CONVERSATION) Most people think of ...