Vertebrate lonesome kinase mediates a key interaction between neurons involved in injury-induced pain and helps explain ...

New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

The human brain is an amazing thing. Maybe the most amazing thing. Tens of billions of neurons and glia, intricately organized, working in harmony to allow you to think, to create, to learn and ...

A little-studied steroid that serves as a building block for hormones like estrogen and testosterone has been shown to enhance learning and memory in a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco.

Researchers report that complex sugar molecules in the brain might affect plasticity, which is involved in learning and memory. During their study, the researchers changed one of the genes in mice and ...

The endocannabinoid system is found throughout the brain and body and plays a key role in everything from memory and learning ...

The freshwater pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis has emerged as an invaluable invertebrate model for the study of memory formation and central nervous system (CNS) function. Its relatively simple yet ...

The Stress Spectrum is described as positive, tolerable, and toxic. It refers to the stress response system's effects on the body, not the actual stressful experiences or events. Understanding the ...

Bitter compounds in cocoa, berries and red wine may boost memory by 30% within an hour by triggering brain's alarm system, a ...