A recent study suggests that a drug approved for the treatment of seizures may also help treat Alzheimer's in people who do ...

Study reveals how the brain decodes and reacts to smells, linking odors to emotion and memory. Study: Single-neuron ...

This is the first study to show the cellular basis of mental simulation and imagination in a nonspatial domain through ...

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A seminal finding by Fried and his colleagues was that of "concept cells" in human hippocampus and entorhinal cortex that responds to particular individuals, places or distinct objects and appear ...

Overview: I use a variety of electrophysiological and pharmacological techniques to examine how short- and long-term alterations in the strength of synapses occur, and how these changes may contribute ...

The neurodegenerative disorder affects millions of Americans, and its impact varies significantly across the country.

We often only realize how important our sense of smell is when it is no longer there: food is not as tasty as it once was, or we no longer react to dangers such as the smell of smoke. Researchers have ...