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Action of nerve cells

...ppled the protein UNC-13. " All our thoughts and memories are coded by chemical connections in the brain", said Eric Jorgensen, Professor of Biology, Univerity of Utah . According to a new study Eric and his colleagues demonstrated that UNC-13 is necessary for helping another protein named syntaxin to send ...

Left handed have better episodic memory

...pus callosum is critical in the formation of event memories and therefore expalin why its maturation in early childhood is at least partly responsible for the emergence of episodic memory....

How brain works

...ppled the protein UNC-13. " All our thoughts and memories are coded by chemical connections in the brain", said Eric Jorgensen, Professor of Biology, Univerity of Utah . According to a new study Eric and his colleagues demonstrated that UNC-13 is necessary for helping another protein named syntaxin to send ...

Memories change with age

...xperience that leads older people to express their memories differently. The researchers now want to study the possible age-related brain differences which may be linked to this evolution of memory....

Memory said to automatically improve with age

...ter and sparks creativity. It does this by storing memories and skills learned over time.The brain then uses this knowledge to help it learn automatically by itself. This makes it easier to understand situations and solve problems very quickly -- sometimes even subconsciously.As you age, intelligent memory in...

Enzyme Associated with Memory

...l never forget. But why? A new study finds lasting memories are formed with a process that involves the enzyme known as protein kinase C.// Researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center reported on their study at the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in New Orleans. Researchers s...

Enzyme Associated With Memory

...l never forget. But why? A new study finds lasting memories are formed with a process that involves the enzyme known as protein kinase C.// Researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center reported on their study at the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in New Orleans. Researchers s...

Alzheimer Gene Carriers Found To Have Memory Problems

...creased Alzheimer's risk had far worse prospective memories than those without the genotype. According to researchers "Alzheimer's gene" is a certain variation or allele of a gene called ApoE (Apolipoprotein E) which is responsible for switching on a protein in the blood that helps carry cholesterol. ApoE...

Noise pollution can cause harm in cognitive development of children

...he reading comprehension abilities and recognition memories of the children. They also seem to be more annoyed than their counterparts elsewhere. Road traffic noise exposure directly seemed to affect the children’s capacity for conceptual recall or information recall, as well as annoyance. The research, whic...

Sleep more to improve your memory

...ation inputs a new memory is formed. However these memories may be only short term and in order to make them long term, they need to be embedded in the memory system. This happens when the brain cell connections between different regions are strengthened. It was previously believed that this is established ov...

Research Finds How Post-traumatic Stress Leads to Long-Lasting Memories

...ll recognized condition that results in unpleasant memories that can keep haunting a person for all their life...The researchers believe that Arc helps store these memories by strengthening the synapses, the connections between neurons. "Emotionally neutral events genera...

Habit Memory May Enhance Learning In People

...ugh repetition and trial-and-error learning. These memories are retained in a different region of the brain, c..., the human patient loses the ability to learn new memories and to access recent memories. In monkeys with lesions in the hippocampus, it had been shown that ...

Unpleasant Memory of Food could Be Used to Treat Obesity

False memories of unpleasant experiences with unhealthy foods cou... The researchers have shown that elaborate false memories - for instance, of being lost in a shopping mall as a child - can be implanted in people's minds. I...

And now its super mice for longer memory

..., scientists have created mice with unusually long memories raising hopes of people with severe forgetfulness ...s could be developed to help people who lose their memories through old age or with Alzheimer's disease. These findings have been published in the journal – Cel...

Constitution of memory

...terns in activity that change depending on whether memories are going to be stored or deleted. The study was done by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and reported to the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting this year.// The researchers coupled a numbe...

Peaceful Slumber said to Restore Memories

...hysical recharge. Researchers say sleep can rescue memories in a biological process of storing and consolidati...rs say, it could be that a person acquires so many memories each day that some details are lost in that jumble -- but that the brain sorts and reorganizes the m...

An Enzyme That Turns a One –time Experience into a long-time Memor

...l never forget. But why? A new study finds lasting memories are formed with a process that involves the enzyme known as protein kinase C.// Researchers in New Orleans studied female mice and how they remembered their mating partner. They discovered that with only one exposure at mating, the mice can later ...

Humans Found To Have The Ability To Block Unwanted Memories

...out it, they actually don’t remember it as well as memories where they were not presented with any reminders at all. Thus researchers say their findings could be used as a tool for better understanding addiction and cravings...

Mental exercises reduces brain ageing

... Professor Roberton said, “One of the reasons our memories let us down as we get older is that we don’t attack the information with the same brain vigor as when we were young”. In a small study when young people were asked to memorize words, more activity was found in the frontal lobe of the left-brain and t...

Neurobiology Provides Answers To Block Memory-Related Drug Cravings

...e cocaine-associated places also continued to blur memories of those places weeks later. This research provide...e single infusion. The finding also suggests that memories responsible for relapse in drug addicts may be similarly disrupted by a therapeutic agent targeting ...

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