When the brain creates a long-term memory of a special experience, like your first kiss or first breakup, it creates new synapses to connect individual neurons. The stronger the synapses, the more ...

Anxiety disorder is very debilitating. But in small doses, it could be beneficial. A new study has shown that there is an optimum level of anxiety that could help us remember things better. However, ...

Alcoholism can disrupt memory functioning prior to later-stage Korsakoff's syndrome. A new study has examined associative memory, used in remembering face-name associations, in alcoholics. Findings ...

Ketamine is increasingly used to model the cognitive deficits and symptoms of schizophrenia. We investigated the extent to which ketamine administration in healthy volunteers reproduces the deficits ...