Scientists have long studied the role of dopamine, a chemical in the brain that helps control learning and movement, in order ...

How does dopamine control both movement and learning? New research reveals that acetylcholine acts as a "switch" for dopamine function.

Can caffeine save your social life? New research shows how caffeine restores social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by targeting the hippocampal CA2 region. Learn about the molecular mechanisms ...

Cognitive tasks, such as learning and memory, require rapid changes to proteins at synapses, such as protein synthesis, degradation, and trafficking. How protein post-translational modifications ...

Neuroscience, Active Learning, Teaching, Learning Process, Student Support, Effective Pedagogy through Neuroscience Share and Cite: Rahman, L. (2026) How Neuroscience Can Enhance Active Learning and ...

Sleep loss selectively disrupts memory-related brain circuits and behavior, while caffeine restores synaptic plasticity and ...

Neurons are important, but they are not everything. Indeed, it is "cartilage," in the form of clusters of extracellular matrix molecules called chondroitin sulfates, located in the outside nerve cells ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song, or directions to a friend’s house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...