Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

A team led by BBRF grantees has proposed a markedly new way of understanding the role of dopamine in the brain in processes involved in learning and memory. The revised view of the neurotransmitter ...

Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons. The discovery turns a century-old view of dopamine on its head and could ...

You get up to go to another room, but once you’re there you forget why you came to the room in the first place. Has this ever happened to you? Researchers at Scripps Research report they have ...

Kimberlee D'Ardenne currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (R21-MH130924-01) and has received other funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science ...

A new study on middle-aged mice found that regular running increased a brain chemical called dopamine, which plays a big role ...

Distraction can make you momentarily forget things. But how? A lab now uncovers a mechanism in fruit flies. In a landmark neurobiology study, scientists from Scripps Research have discovered a memory ...

A team led by BBRF grantees has proposed a markedly new way of understanding the role of dopamine in the brain in processes involved in learning and memory. The revised view of the neurotransmitter ...