New role for immature brain neurons in the dentate gyrus identified Date: April 20, 2016 Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham Summary: Researchers present data and a simple statistical ...

Using brain scans and memory tests, the latest study built on previous work showing that flavanols extracted from cocoa beans had improved neuronal connections in mice’s dentate gyrus ...

Working with mice, the scientists have located these neurons in the brain's dentate gyrus, an area of the hippocampus that is involved in the encoding, recall, and the reduction of fear.

Some 5 percent of the dentate gyrus’s one million cells are active when a mouse encodes a memory of a place. Here, active cells are pink and orange. Xu Liu and Steve Ramirez Cells active during ...

Much work has focused on a region of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus (DG), where rodents produce newborn neurons throughout life that are thought to help them form distinct new memories, ...

The dentate gyrus is an epicenter of neurogenesis responsible for the formation of new episodic memories and the spontaneous exploration of novel environments, among other functions. More ...

But a new study suggests only a small chunk of it, called the dentate gyrus, is responsible for “episodic” memories—information that allows us to tell similar places and situations apart.

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital uncovered how our brains can do things like react to a question when we're daydreaming: firing activity in part of the brain called the dentate gyrus ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have proposed a model that resolves a seeming paradox in one of the most intriguing areas of the brain—the dentate gyrus. This region helps form ...