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 ...

Blocking microglia prevents infant forgetting and improves memory in mice, suggesting they play a key role in memory ...

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

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microglial receptor ADGRG1 helps immune cells eat amyloid plaques and may offer new hope for Alzheimer's treatment. (CREDIT: ...

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

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to ...