For the first time, a new study in rats teases apart the role of the hippocampus in two functions of memory -- one that remembers associations between time, place and what one did, and another that ...

The hippocampus is a small but powerful part of the brain that plays an important role in memory and learning. It helps store short-term experiences and turn them into long-term memories. Scientists ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...