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A new study of the neural circuits that underlie long-term memory formation reveals, for the first time, that memories are formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and the long-term storage location in the brain’s cortex. However, the long-term memories remain “silent”…

A new study published in PLOS Medicine has found that the metabolism of omega-3 and omega-6 unsaturated fatty acids in the brain are associated with the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Currently it is thought that the main reason for developing…

A new study has found a link between neurological birth defects in infants commonly found in pregnant women with diabetes and several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases. The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National…

A study has shown that suppressing a certain protein in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) could markedly extend the animal’s life span. In one experiment, none of the untreated mice lived longer than 29 days, while some…