A study on mice found that a six-hour sleep disruption interfered with the consolidation of fear memories, making them weaker. This disruption also increased the levels of mRNA encoding brain-derived ...

Researchers have developed ways to manipulate neurons involved in a particular memory to make mice recall an experience or to remember something that never happened. Memory formation in mice involves ...

However, that experimental design was complex, required many sessions, and had rats receive many foot shock presentations. Moreover, the findings were descriptive. Here, we gave female and male Long ...