In a new study, researchers showed for the first time that—just as the brain remembers people, places, smells, and so on—it also stores what they call “memory traces” of the body’s past infections. Reactivating the same brain cells that encode this information is enough to summon the peripheral immune system to defend at-risk tissues.

In an advance in treating spinal cord injuries, researchers have pinpointed nerve cells that are key to allowing people with paralysis to walk again.

When lab-grown clumps of human neurons are transplanted into newborn rats, they grow with the animals. The research raises some tricky ethical questions.

Researchers implanted an epilepsy device in the right hemisphere of a depressed patient's brain, carefully targeting and stimulating a neural circuit, ultimately reducing her symptoms of depression. UCSF neuroscientists are continuing to research this more personalized approach in delivering brain stimulation in depression.

called APOE4 raises a person’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease. However, the APOE4 variant has positive cognitive impacts: It may not only boost short-term memory, but also protect against subtle memory loss early in the course of Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers are inventing devices to upgrade memory, enhance learning abilities and communicate using only our minds. Check out this article to learn more about how advances in the neurotechnology of learning promise to alter how the brain functions, and ultimately our sense of self.

Our memory can retain far more than either experts or we expect. Studies suggest that although we don’t recall a large fraction of what we experience, what we do remember is accurate, at least for a few days, with a number of factors impacting memory performance.

Earlier generations of neuroprostheses have relied on communications from the brain to the limb or hand muscles to activate letters on a keyboard. Now, researchers have decoded the origin of brain signals controlling speech and created the new neuroprosthesis that facilitates the production of whole words, yielding a faster word-per-minute rate.

Earlier generations of neuroprostheses have relied on communications from the brain to the limb or hand muscles to activate letters on a keyboard. Now, researchers have decoded the origin of brain signals controlling speech and created the new neuroprosthesis that facilitates the production of whole words, yielding a faster word-per-minute rate.

Our memory can retain far more than either experts or we expect. Studies suggest that although we don’t recall a large fraction of what we experience, what we do remember is accurate, at least for a few days, with a number of factors impacting memory performance.