Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. —Albert Schweitzer The hippocampus is a key area of the brain involved with basic function, part of the temporal lobe and intimately ...

For decades, neuroscientists assumed the hippocampus, the brain’s memory hub, started out mostly empty and built its wiring as an animal explored the world. A new study in mice suggests the opposite: ...

Shrinkage of one of the brain's key memory centers appears to herald thinking declines, a new study finds. The region in question is the hippocampus, a two-sided structure located roughly above each ...

A UCLA-led study has provided an unprecedented look at how gene regulation evolves during human brain development, showing how the 3D structure of chromatin - DNA and proteins - plays a critical role.