New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

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

Mice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that never leave their cages, a study hints.

The neonatal period, which is defined as the first 28 days after birth, is known to be a crucial stage in the development of the human brain. During this stage, the brain is known to grow ...

Leigh syndrome is a fatal pediatric neurodegenerative disorder caused by mitochondrial dysfunction, most often due to defects ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them-an effect called infantile amnesia.

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile amnesia") and improves memory in mice, suggesting that microglia may ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...