Saniona AB has shown that SAN-2465, its GABA-A α5 negative allosteric modulator, significantly enhanced hippocampal synaptic ...

As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to events and the activity they cause in the brain. Neuroscientists believe that ...

The human brain is known to store various memories for long periods of time, progressively learning from new experiences and forming adaptive representations that ultimately guide decision-making and ...

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 ...

A new review in Molecular Biology Reports details how the polyphenol resveratrol may protect and enhance synaptic plasticity ...

Research company Saniona reports new preclinical data showing that the drug candidate SAN2465 significantly improves synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. The effect amounted to 43.5 percent above ...

Why is it that we can remember today what we learned yesterday?Hearing someone's voice can suddenly bring back a scene from the past. When performing an action we have practiced many times, our bodies ...

Cognitive decline associated with aging is caused by the loss of cholinergic nerve supply to the hippocampus of our brain. Since the hippocampus is the center of learning and memory, a reduction in ...

A new study in iScience shows that blocking the cannabinoid CB1 receptor with low-dose rimonabant reverses disease-associated ...

Like vertebrates, sea slugs engage in simple forms of learning and memory, and they have provided valuable insights into synaptic plasticity. 1 Researchers cultured a bifurcated sensory neuron with ...