A recent study in mice suggests that microglia, immune cells found in the brain, may play a role in early memory loss, or ...

Our memories form the foundation of our continuing sense of self. Our understanding of who we are is built up from a lifetime of experiences stored in our brain. Loss of that information about who you ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them—an effect called infantile amnesia. A ...

According to the data, when microglia activity in the brain was suppressed, baby mice were better able to recall fearful experiences.

Getting measles doesn’t confer benefits on the immune system — in fact, it’s just the opposite. Even a mild case of measles destroys the memory cells that confer resistance on bugs the patient has ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them-an effect called infantile amnesia. A type of brain immune cell called microglia might control this type of ...

A sense of self-awareness is strongly involved in episodic memory. It’s the feeling of personally remembering.