Groups of neurons fire in sync with each other across the brain when it performs a task; however, with age, they fall out of step. In the April 8 Nature Neuroscience, Robert Reinhart and John Nguyen ...

Every two hours, the memory of an Illinois teen resets. Every morning, she believes it's June 11, the day she received a traumatic head injury.When Riley Horner wakes up in her bedroom, her first ...

Nothing gives you a boost of energy quite like a good night’s rest. But did you know that sleep and memory are also connected? A recent study from Cornell researchers revealed that neurons help “reset ...

New findings published in the journal Neuron suggest that the locus coeruleus—a tiny region buried deep in the brainstem—may play a key role in helping the brain separate one memory from the next.