You can use up all the storage on your phone or max out your computer's drive, but can you use up all the memory space in your brain? Despite how you might feel before an exam or after a sleepless ...
An international study has revealed a surprising connection between quantum physics and the theoretical models underlying ...
An international team led by Jaime de Juan-Sanz at the Paris Brain Institute has shown that slightly increasing the metabolic capacity of neurons can enhance long-term memory in both fruit flies and ...
Boosting mitochondrial calcium by inhibiting the LETM1 protein enhances long-term memory formation in flies and mice.
Expert tells ‘Post’ why brain remembers pain and why it must forget ...
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Overlooked contributions from astrocytes might explain the human brain's huge storage capacity
The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and send information and commands throughout the brain and the nervous system.
Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...
New details on how the brain stores info, and why it's limited. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2009 — -- Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from ...
The traditional model of memory proposes that different types of long term memory are processed in separate brain modules.
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