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Making Memories Last

Making Memories Last

Stowers researchers discovered that a prion-like protein plays a key role in storing long-term memories. Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called “synapses”. But how do these synapses stay strong and keep memories alive for decades? [Read More]

Study: Men at Higher Risk for Mild Memory Loss than Women

Study: Men at Higher Risk for Mild Memory Loss than Women

Men may be at higher risk of experiencing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or the stage of mild memory loss that occurs between normal aging and dementia, than women, according to a study published in the January 25, 2012, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of [Read More]

Genetic Study Offers Clues to How Intelligence Changes Through Life

Genetic Study Offers Clues to How Intelligence Changes Through Life

Scientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life course. The study found that genetic factors may account for about 24 per cent of changes in intelligence between childhood and old age. The [Read More]

The Illusion of Courage: New Research Explains Why People Mispredict Their Behavior in Embarrassing Situation

The Illusion of Courage: New Research Explains Why People Mispredict Their Behavior in Embarrassing Situation

Whether it’s investing in stocks, bungee jumping or public speaking, why do we often plan to take risks but then “chicken out” when the moment of truth arrives? In a new paper in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, scientists from the University of [Read More]

Cognitive Decline Can Begin as Early as 45, Warn Experts

Cognitive Decline Can Begin as Early as 45, Warn Experts

The brain’s capacity for memory, reasoning and comprehension skills (cognitive function) can start to deteriorate from age 45, finds research published in the BMJ today. Previous research suggests that cognitive decline does not begin before the age of 60, but this view [Read More]

UCLA Neuroscientists Demonstrate Crucial Advances in Brain Reading

UCLA Neuroscientists Demonstrate Crucial Advances in Brain Reading

Innovative machine learning method anticipates neurocognitive changes, similar to predictive text-entry for cell phones, internet search engines At UCLA’s Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology, researchers use functional MRI brain scans to observe brain [Read More]

Babies Remember Even as They Seem to Forget

Babies Remember Even as They Seem to Forget

Fifteen years ago, textbooks on human development stated that babies 6 months of age or younger had no sense of “object permanence” – the psychological term that describes an infant’s belief that an object still exists even when it is out of sight. That [Read More]

Neuroscientists Boost Memory Using Genetics and Memory Enhancing Drug

Neuroscientists Boost Memory Using Genetics and Memory Enhancing Drug

When the activity of a molecule that is normally elevated during viral infections is inhibited in the brain, mice learn and remember better, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reported in a recent article in the journal Cell. “The molecule PKR (the [Read More]

HC: Woman with Amnesia Unable to Hold a Single Face in Short-term Memory … Unless it’s Paris Hilton

HC: Woman with Amnesia Unable to Hold a Single Face in Short-term Memory … Unless it’s Paris Hilton

Study shows intact memory for familiar information, despite memory deficit A 22-year-old woman known as “HC” with amnesia since birth as a result of developing only half the normal volume of the hippocampus in her brain, has demonstrated to scientists that the [Read More]

Neuroscientists Show Activity Patterns in Fly Brain are Optimized for Memory Storage

Neuroscientists Show Activity Patterns in Fly Brain are Optimized for Memory Storage

We know from experience that particular smells are almost inseparable in our minds with memories, some vague and others very specific. The smell of just-baked bread may trigger an involuntary mental journey, even if for a moment, to childhood, or to a particular day during [Read More]

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DNA Test that Identifies Down Syndrome in Pregnancy Can Also Detect Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13

DNA Test that Identifies Down Syndrome in Pregnancy Can Also Detect Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13

A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two [Read More]

Patients’ Brains May Adapt to ADHD Medication

Patients’ Brains May Adapt to ADHD Medication

New research reveals how the brain appears to adapt to compensate for the effects of long-term ADHD medication, [Read More]

Gene Regulator in Brain’s Executive Hub Tracked Across Lifespan

Gene Regulator in Brain’s Executive Hub Tracked Across Lifespan

Mental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive. For the first time, scientists have tracked [Read More]

Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more [Read More]

Obesity Reduces the Size of Your Brain

Obesity Reduces the Size of Your Brain

New research from Uppsala University shows that a specific brain region linked to appetite regulation is reduced in [Read More]

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