As memory fades, people may have difficulty learning new things or navigating their surroundings. In an experiment with rats, scientists explore the role of the hippocampus in helping rats get through ...

UCLA scientists observed the activity of large numbers of neurons in the brains of rats while the animals navigated a virtual reality maze. [Mehta Lab/UCLA] It has been long understood that the area ...

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B O S T O N, Jan. 24 -- Some rats apparently can't ever escape the rat race,even when they're sound asleep. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology saythey've entered the dreams of ...

Discusses the results of a research performed on rats to analyze the relationship between sleep and memory in humans. How the brain functions during sleep; Nature of dreams. SHARE DREAMS Like it or ...

Chinese researchers have linked a human brain to a rat's brain, allowing "mind control" of the rat's movements. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that.

A Brooklyn-based research team has wired a rat’s brain so that someone at a laptop computer can steer the animal through mazes and over rubble. The research gives a glimpse of the possibilities for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Neurogenesis occurs within the adult dentate gyrus of the hippocampal formation and it has been proposed that the newly born neurons, ...

The rat race. I’ve heard the phrase a hundred times, but never understood how it came to mean our tiresome work life. Turns out it is an analogy to lab rats racing through a maze, expending great ...