Could a sound, emitted at a specific frequency, offer a solution to Alzheimer's disease? Researchers have demonstrated that 40 Hz auditory stimulation, administered to elderly monkeys, causes ...

Targeted electrical stimulation may improve memory in patients with epilepsy and traumatic brain injury (TBI), a study found. Machine-learning high-frequency stimulation to the temporal cortex of ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

The six anatomical layers of the mammalian brain cortex show distinct patterns of electrical activity which are consistent throughout the entire cortex and across several animal species, including ...

While we’re asleep at night, our brain is doing something incredible. The hippocampus and the neocortex, two of its key regions, talk back and forth, processing information for long-term ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...