The world around us is beyond complicated. One theory of how the brain deals with this complexity is by creating cognitive maps. In part one, we discussed the underlying ideas behind cognitive maps ...

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

AD is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by neuronal loss in the cerebral cortex and the formation of extracellular ...

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

We often only realize how important our sense of smell is when it is no longer there: food hardly tastes good, or we fail to ...

We often only realize how important our sense of smell is when it is no longer there: food hardly tastes good, or we no longer react to dangers such as the smell of smoke.

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 ...

The discovery that certain smells can be linked to specific neurons is helping us understand how the brain encodes concepts ...

Researchers have discovered that specific neurons in the human brain react to scents, images, and associated words, such as ...

We often only realize how important our sense of smell is when it is no longer there: food hardly tastes good, or we no ...

These changes are said to include toxic protein buildups, neuron loss, and death. Damage initially affects the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, causing memory formation, continues the publication.