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memory research

·May 3, 2012·4 min read

Awake Mental Replay of Past Experiences Critical for Learning

Blocking it stumps memory-guided decision-making in rats – NIH-funded study Awake mental replay of past experiences is essential for making...

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·October 4, 2012·4 min read

Babies Learn the Smell of Mum

Newborn mice use mom's unique odor, not a pheromone, to begin breastfeeding.

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·December 19, 2011·2 min read

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...

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·December 9, 2010·5 min read

Beta-amyloid Removal Problems May Underlie Alzheimer’s Disease

The removal of beta-amyloid is not efficient in late-onset Alzheimer's disease sufferers. These new findings could help produce better early diagnostic tests and therapies for Alzheimer's disease and related research.

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·March 27, 2012·3 min read

Blocking “Oh-Glick-Nack” May Improve Long-Term Memory

Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated...

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·February 13, 2013·2 min read

Blood May Hold Clues to Risk of Memory Problems After Menopause

A new study suggests that blood may hold clues to whether post-menopausal women may have an increased risk for brain damage that can lead to memory problems and an increased risk of stroke.

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·August 20, 2012·2 min read

Brain Enzyme is Double Whammy for Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers discover that an enzyme known for generating toxic brain plaques in Alzheimer's disease also causes additional memory and cognitive deficits via a separate mechanism. They found that BACE1 disrupts the cell's production of other molecules required for PKA function. By that mechanism, BACE1 inactivates PKA and therefore inhibits memory formation in mice, even in the absence of neurotoxic β-amyloid.

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·August 1, 2012·4 min read

Brain Imaging Can Predict How Intelligent You Are, Study Finds

Research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that another 10 percent of individual differences in intelligence can be explained by the strength of neural pathways connecting the left lateral prefrontal cortex to the rest of the brain.

Neurology

·January 12, 2012·3 min read

Brain Region Can Signal Early Stage Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

Early changes to the inferior frontal junction observed in early dementias A key misplaced yet again? Unable to recall a...

Electrophysiology

·December 29, 2011·3 min read

Brain’s Connective Cells Are Much More Than Glue

Glia cells also regulate learning and memory, new TAU research finds. Glia cells, named for the Greek word for “glue,”...

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·July 30, 2012·3 min read

Brains Are Different in People with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory

UC Irvine scientists have discovered intriguing differences in the brains and mental processes of an extraordinary group of people who can effortlessly recall every moment of their lives since about age 10. Research offers the first scientific findings about nearly a dozen people with this highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM).

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·September 22, 2010·3 min read

Can Career Choices Influence Dementia?

Correlating data from 588 patients diagnosed with frontotemporal lobe degeneration (FTLD), researchers found that subjects with professions which related highly for verbal skills had greater tissue loss on the right hand side of the brain. By contrast, those whose professions required less aptitude for verbal skills, for example flight engineers, had more tissue damage to the left hand side of the brain.

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memory research

Awake Mental Replay of Past Experiences Critical for Learning

Babies Learn the Smell of Mum

Babies Remember Even as They Seem to Forget

Beta-amyloid Removal Problems May Underlie Alzheimer’s Disease

Blocking “Oh-Glick-Nack” May Improve Long-Term Memory

Blood May Hold Clues to Risk of Memory Problems After Menopause

Brain Enzyme is Double Whammy for Alzheimer’s Disease

Brain Imaging Can Predict How Intelligent You Are, Study Finds

Brain Region Can Signal Early Stage Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

Brain’s Connective Cells Are Much More Than Glue

Brains Are Different in People with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory

Can Career Choices Influence Dementia?

Predicting PTSD: Brain Scans Unravel Trauma’s Long-term Effects

Brain’s Molecular Response to Psychological Loss

Brain’s Dual-Chemical Switch for Attention Revealed

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