Scientists found the brain doesn’t start blank, it starts full

The hippocampus plays a central role in how we form memories and navigate space. It helps convert short-term experiences into long-term memories, allowing us to store and build on what we learn. Scientists led by Magdalena Walz Professor for Life Sciences Peter Jonas at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) are closely studying this brain region. Their new research, published in Nature Communications, explores how one of the hippocampus's main neural netwo...