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 ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

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

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

According to the data, when microglia activity in the brain was suppressed, baby mice were better able to recall fearful experiences.

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them-an effect called infantile amnesia. A type of brain immune cell called microglia might control this type of ...

Our memories form the foundation of our continuing sense of self. Our understanding of who we are is built up from a lifetime of experiences stored in our brain. Loss of that information about who you ...