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Two Veterans Affairs researchers have explored how memory is tied to the hippocampus, with findings that will expand scientists' understanding of how memory works.

Fewer cells differentiate into olfactory cells in old age as they tend to remain in the stem cell pool and become less active.

A Zika virus vaccine has protected mouse fetuses against brain infections and malformations, warranting further exploration as a vaccine candidate.

A powerful sense of smell is critical for salmon to avoid predators, find prey and find their way home to spawn, but it might be in trouble as carbon emissions continue to be absorbed by our ocean.

Policies that limit what types of food can be shelved in the checkout aisles of grocery stores may successfully curb junk food intake in shoppers.

Review finds food labels have led to changes in consumers' intake of select nutrients and industry's use of key additives.

Writing in the journal Cell Chemical Biology, Scripps Research chemist Matthew Disney, PhD, and colleagues describe a new compound that blocks the most common genetic cause of both familial ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

Better tactics for detecting, preventing and treating Alzheimer’s disease depend on a clearer understanding of cellular-level changes in the minds of patients. A new study has uncovered novel details about the vulnerability of one type of brain cell.

Reducing the legal limit for a driver’s blood alcohol level (BAL) is considered “best practice” for reducing injuries and deaths from motor vehicle accidents (MVA). But a new study suggests that this best practice may need to be refined.

Already affecting more than five million Americans older than 65, Alzheimer’s disease is on the rise. In a study published today in the journal BRAIN, neuroscientists used data from the human brain connectome – a publicly available “wiring diagram” of the human brain based on data from thousands of healthy human volunteers – to reassess the findings from neuroimaging studies of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.