Navigation in mammals including humans and rodents depends on specialized neural networks that encode the animal's location and trajectory in the environment, serving essentially as a GPS, findings ...

A new study reveals that neuron networks in the brain's hippocampus, the memory centre, become sparser but more structured and refined as animals mature.

Technology has given us the luxury and ease of travelling faster, safer as well as making the most informed decisions. But is this much information good for our brain? The worry regarding how much of ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists found the brain's internal GPS changes each time we navigate a familiar, static environment. This means that if someone walks the same path ...