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

...-shaped portion of the brain involved in emotional learning and memory, which then increases a protein called "Arc" in the neurons in the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in processing and enabling the storage of lasting memories. The researchers believe that Arc helps store these memories by strengt...

Habit Memory May Enhance Learning In People

...and happen even when people are not aware of their learning experience//. The research comes out in the July 2...en they are actually not aware of doing so. Habit learning occurs when information is stored unconsciously, through repetition and trial-and-error learning. Th...

Secret Of Heartbeat Protein Unravelled

...transmitter called glutamate that is essential for learning and memory and also plays a role in drug addiction. A similar scaffolding mechanism is at work in the heart, where it affects basic functions, including the heartbeat. SAP97 is a complex protein made up of five "domains" similar to a train comprisin...

Hyaluronic Acid – A Boon To The Problem Of Premature Infant

...ds of white matter injury cause cerebral palsy and learning problems in children born prematurely and multiple sclerosis in older children and adults. It has been reported that hyaluronic acid (HA) prevents immature oligodendrocytes from maturing and coating nerve fibres with new myelin. Astrocytes, the fir...

Toxin Identified For Alzheimer’s Diseas

... memory, ability to reason, creative abilities and learning powers. Dementia: Dementia is a condition where the person is affected by impaired intellectual capability. Some signs of dementia are short-term memory loss, inability to do concrete or abstract reasoning, difficulty in concentration, inappropria...

Making operation and recovery time shorter

...ch is considered better for surgeons who are still learning laproscopic techniques. More and more doctors turn to hand-assisted laproscopic nephrectomy as a fist hand treatment for cancer patients, and thereby allowing living people to donate a kidney to someone whose ailing. Wolf from his results of the fi...

And now its super mice for longer memory

...nto the molecular processes that govern memory and learning in the brain,” said Isabelle Mansuy, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. This breakthrough provides a number of exciting targets for research into human memory.// Drugs could be developed to help people who lose their memo...

Sympathy and brain function

...f empathy have now found brain regions involved in learning by imitation. They have also identified a network of brain regions that are involved in human imitation and specific brain areas that enable a person to distinguish the self from others.// The research, done by a French and American team of so...

Lessening operation and recovery time

...ch is considered better for surgeons who are still learning laproscopic techniques. More and more doctors turn to hand-assisted laproscopic nephrectomy as a fist hand treatment for cancer patients, and thereby allowing living people to donate a kidney to someone whose ailing. Wolf from his results of the fi...

Peaceful Slumber said to Restore Memories

... said the voice recognition training is similar to learning a new language and is therefore more complex than ...-27 to perform finger-tapping sequences similar to learning piano scales. Their ability to repeat those sequences was then tested at various intervals, includin...

Surgeons Perform Robotic Gastric Bypass Surgery

...ich the operative times improved indicate that the learning curve for the robotic procedure is considerably sh...cation rates, increased operative times, and steep learning curves, the authors conclude. Source: Newswise...

Learning process to be regulated by altering brain protein

...eurons fire in a part of the brain associated with learning could pave way for better understanding of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. // A protein named “ Reelin”, an important component of the nervous system has been the focus of the research. During development, reelin sends cues to migrating neur...

Changes In Brain Structure From Methamphetamine Abuse And HIV Infection

...t can later affect the cognitive // functions like learning new things, problem solving, paying attention to s... information processing, attention/working memory, learning and delayed recall, abstraction/executive functioning, verbal fluency, and motor functioning. They...

Brain Patterns In Amusia May Be Related To Other Disorders

... they feel these may be also associated with other learning disorders like dyslexia. // While their friends ...y have implications both for amusia and for speech learning disabilities, said the researchers of the University of Montreal who had conducted the study.Researc...

Number Of Babies Born Prematurely Nears Historic Half Million Mark In US

...nces – such as cerebral palsy, mental retardation, learning problems and blindness...

Some See A Hopeless End, While Others See An Endless Hope

...proach to involve us in clearing certain myths and learning to not give up the mental fight at least. Breast cancer is not a communicable disease; it arises as a result of certain cellular changes occurring within your body. The finding of just a lump or swelling in your breast does not mean that you have ...

Socialization A Serious Trouble For Childhood Cancer Survivors

...er survivors more often repeated a grade, attended learning disability or special education programs. Children with brain cancers, leukemia, and neuroblastoma and those treated with CRT or combined CRT and intrathecal methotrexate (IT MTX) were more likely to report educational difficulties. Socially, cance...

Children With Facial Anomalies Are Affected By Parental Tensions

... Parental stress begins with the initial shock of learning of the CFA. Parents then must also deal with other people’s negative responses to the disfigurement, which can isolate a new family when they need support. Several studies have indicated that children with CFAs may elicit a style of parenting that is...

Multiple Sclerosis drug, Tysabri banned due to neurological disorders

...pany suspended sales of Tysabri in February, after learning of the two PML cases, one of which was fatal. The company also halted trials of the drug for rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn disease. There has never previously been a documented case of PML in MS patients, even though these patients have been treate...

Math Learning Disorder Higher in Boys

...ognized importance of mathematics, the majority of learning disability research has focused on reading. The pr... the extent to which Math LD occurs as an isolated learning disorder versus the extent to which it occurs simultaneously with Reading LD. This study is the fi...

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