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Daily Mail: How memories become permanent: Scientists identify process that controls 'rhythmic' brain waves for the first time ...

Using a brain scanner (stock image), scientists have found memories can be recovered in a tenth of a second - around a third of the time ...

3D image of the hippocampus of a rat. Credit: © M. Pyka A Glimpse Into The 3-D Brain: How Memories Form -- Science Daily Summary: Pe...

UC Irvine scientists have discovered intriguing differences in the brains and mental processes of an extraordinary group of people who can e...

Image: Muharrem Oner/iStockphoto Memories Clutter Brain In Amnesia -- Science News Complex patterns slow down object recognition in patient...

Image: Drawing from Gray's Anatomy Why Is Memory So Good and So Bad? -- Scientific American Explaining the memory paradox. What did you...

Does Sugar Make You Stupid? Study Suggests It Sabotages Learning And Memory -- Daily Mail * Fructose is commonly added to processed foods...

(Credit: Marcos Andre, Wikimedia Commons) Spine Tuning: Finding Physical Evidence of How Practice Rewires the Brain -- Scientific American I...

Scientists have advanced understanding of the genetic components of Alzheimer's disease and of brain development. (Credit: © adimas / Fo...

Neuroscientists Identify How the Brain Remembers What Happens and When -- Science Daily ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2011) — New York University ne...

Memory Boost For Aging Adults: Take A Walk -- Live Science Forget the brain puzzles, mild exercise such as walking can boost brain volume an...

From Live Science: Could boosting your memory someday be as simple as popping a pill? Scientists found that rats injected with a hormone cou...

Memories Are Made Like This – Sleeping On Them -- The Telegraph If you want knowledge to stick then it is best to take a nap after absorbing...

From Science Codex: PHILADELPHIA – If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instea...

Researchers have found that deleting the RGS14 gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered t...

Image: Faces that activate the same regions of the brain again and again are more likely to be remembered.Pasieka / Science Photo Library F...

Want to forget a fright? (Image: WIN-Initiative/Getty) From New Scientist: MEMORIES are the basic stuff of thought. We access our stores of ...

Image: Douglas Jones From The Wall Street Journal: Doctors Try New Therapy for Phobias; Taking the Sting Out Of Childhood Upsets. Is it pos...

To explore how memories are recorded, researchers showed volunteers three short films and asked them to memorize what they saw. The films we...