According to evidence from a preclinical study published in Nature, the hippocampus, the brain's memory center, may also reorganize memories to anticipate future outcomes. The study, conducted by ...

A research team says high blood sugar levels appear to weaken function in key part of brain, mimicking Alzheimer's. Type 2 diabetes may rewire the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer's disease -- ...

For the first time, a study in rats teases apart the role of the hippocampus in two functions of memory—one that remembers associations between time, place and what one did, and another that allows ...

A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It produces dopamine, a neuromodulator that helps predict future rewards based on ...

Your ability to remember something involves three phases. There is a learning phase (which psychologists call encoding) in which you encounter some piece of information. There is a retention interval ...

Type 2 diabetes may rewire the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer’s disease — and UNLV researchers say the “why” may lie in a previously unexplored connection between high blood sugar levels and ...