Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

For the first time, we have found “time cells” in the human brain. These help us remember the sequence and timing of events, and they could be targets for treating memory loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

“You’ll remember that you saw Jennifer Aniston yesterday and not a few weeks ago because there’ll be a cell that fired yesterday that didn’t fire on any other day,” says Daniel Bush at University College London, who wasn’t involved in the discovery. “That’s a time cell.”…