The firing of most hippocampal neurons is modulated by the theta rhythm, but it's not clear how and where the rhythm is generated. A study now shows that the required machinery for theta generation ...

New research supports the hypothesis that spatial coding by grid cells requires theta rhythm oscillations, and dissociates the mechanisms underlying the generation of entorhinal grid cell periodicity ...

Theta rhythm generation involves a variety of mechanisms, including theta rhythmic firing in septal and hippocampal interneurons, excitatory inputs to hippocampus and intrinsic properties of ...

Virtual reality is fun. But what if it could be more than fun? What if VR could make you smarter? For more than 70 years, scientists have known about a brain phenomenon called the “theta rhythm.” To ...

Scientists know a great deal about how Alzheimer disease damages the hippocampus at a cellular and cognitive level, but surprisingly little is known about how AD affects the electrical activity of the ...

In the April 26 Science Signaling, researchers led by Ted Abel at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, pinpointed a complex, mTORC. This kinase complex activates protein translation and is ...

Researchers from HSE University and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences have discovered how the theta rhythm of the brain and the gender differences in attitudes to risk are ...

Stronger, improved brain rhythms appear in VR in a brain region responsible for many learning and memory diseases, from Alzheimer's to ADHD and depression A new discovery in rats shows that the brain ...