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Researchers have shown that, just like declarative memories, short-term and long-term memories for motor skills form in different regions of the brain, with the cerebellum being critical for the formation of long-term skill memories.

Alzheimer’s disease may damage the brain in two distinct phases, based on new research using sophisticated brain mapping tools. According to researchers who discovered this new view, the first, early phase happens slowly and silently — before people e…

By generating mice with genetic mutations that disrupt the brain’s TrkC-PTP protein complex, researchers find a key way that brain cells communicate.

New research indicates that a novel method could result in a new treatment option in an area of medicine that currently has few, if any, treatment options.

A new technology enables the control of specific brain circuits non-invasively with magnetic fields, according to a preclinical study. The technology holds promise as a powerful tool for studying the brain and as the basis for future neurological and p…

A new study from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of McGill university, the University of Ottawa and the University of Zaragoza in Spain elaborates on bilingualism’s role in cognition, showing increased efficiency of communication b…