Clocks are essential for keeping us in sync with the rhythms of the world, but we also rely our brain’s own awareness of the passage of time. Many different parts of the brain are involved in timekeeping, capturing information about time in patterns of neural activity, then using that information to make sense of events and coordinate actions. When injury or disease damages that circuitry, it can skew the way we remember the past and make it harder to plan for the future… Continue reading → The Brain’s Medial Entorhinal Cortex Keeps Track of Time