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

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

Investigating neuronal activity in the brain, this study highlights how olfactory cues are processed, emphasizing the roles ...

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

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 ...

Their focus was on the entorhinal cortex, a region of the brain that acts as a relay between the hippocampus — responsible ...

During the experiment, neurons in each participant’s hippocampus and entorhinal cortex gradually began to respond not only to the face being presented but also to faces directly connected to it ...

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 is not as tasty as it once was, or we no longer react to dangers such as the smell of smoke. Researchers have ...