The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...

Déjà vu is the eerie feeling that you have had the same novel experience before. It’s a spontaneous, elusive sensation that ...

If you’re ruminating over (actively recalling) a troubling memory, it might be possible ... Then began the retrieval practice phase where the scientists repeatedly put the rat back in the ...

However, the role of astrocytes in storage and retrieval of memories has not been investigated ... tools to identify and study the activity of astrocytes associated with memory brain circuits. A ...

Naturally, the implications of this discovery provide interesting avenues of research for conditions in which memory retrieval is compromised, such as in Alzheimer's disease, or when specific ...

However, the role of astrocytes in storage and retrieval of memories has not been ... and study the activity of astrocytes ...

However, the role of astrocytes in storage and retrieval of memories has not been investigated before," Deneen said. Astrocytes trigger memory recall The researchers began by developing a ...