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·October 30, 2013·2 min read

How Video Games Like Super Mario Can Benefit the Brain

Playing video games causes increases in brain regions responsible for memory formation and strategic planning, researchers have discovered. The findings could prove relevant in developing new therapeutic interventions for psychiatric illnesses.

This image is a stylized diagram of the hippocampus. The parahippocampal gyrus labeled at bottom center.

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·September 25, 2013·1 min read

Feelings Forge Stronger Memories

A new study reports bad experiences enhance memory formation about places.

This is a modified drawing of the neural circuitry of the rodent hippocampus.

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·September 18, 2013·2 min read

Study Helps Deconstruct Estrogen’s Role in Memory

New research uncovers the role estrogen plays in memory formation.

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·September 12, 2013·2 min read

Scientists Pinpoint Proteins Vital to Long-Term Memory

Researchers have identified a group of proteins essential to the formation of long-term memories.

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·September 10, 2013·2 min read

Study Creates New Memories by Directly Changing the Brain

Researchers create new and specific memories by directly manipulating brain cells in the cerebral cortex of rodents.

The image is a FDG-PET images show reduced glucose metabolism in temporal and parietal regions in patients with MCI and Alzheimer's disease.

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·June 26, 2013·6 min read

Promising Alzheimer’s ‘Drug’ Halts Memory Loss

Researchers discover a new class of experimental drug like small molecules show promise in targeting a brain enzyme to prevent early memory loss in Alzheimer's disease.