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 ...

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 ...

Blocking microglia prevents infant forgetting and improves memory in mice, suggesting they play a key role in memory ...

A recent study has reported that microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, play a central role in infantile amnesia in mice, with implications for how memories are stored, suppressed and ...

Anterograde amnesia is a type of memory loss that makes it difficult to form new memories. Brain damage or inflammation due to a head injury is often the cause of anterograde amnesia. Anterograde ...

A topic I have yet to cover in my posts about memory problems is memory loss, or amnesia. One of two criteria in diagnosing a concussion is memory loss. The other is the duration of time of lost ...

The measles virus attacks long-lived immune cells, reducing antibody-mediated protection from other infectious diseases and casting a long shadow of childhood mortality. Many of the nastier measles ...