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Treating Dental Problems Of Abused Children Need Special Care

...ces in the dentist’s office may trigger unpleasant memories of the abuse experience and such victims may skip dental care // appointments. This was the result of a study reported in the latest issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA). The study, conducted by a team of Canadian researche...

Active Lifestyle Helps To Slowdown Illness In Alzheimer's Patients

...ces the agony of seeing a loved one gradually lose memories and become totally dependent for every need. Many among caretakers end up requiring treatment for depression and other stress-related problems. Each stage of the illness generally lasts for three to four years and by the third or last stage, the pa...

EEG Test on brain may predict future dementia

... study were all healthy people who felt that their memories were on the decline. Over the period of the study, 27 of them developed mild impairment or serious dementia, the researchers said. ...

Fear Factor Found To Be Crucial In Shaping An Individual’s Personalit

...can control their emotional response to unpleasant memories in an effective way. The researchers carried out a...d emotional distress to situations that bring back memories of traumatic events. However, such responses usually get attenuated over time as the situations are ...

Excess Cdk5 Enzyme Can Harm Brain

...ilitated learning, whereas the ability to form new memories was impaired by prolonged p25 expression, according to the researchers said. The study showed that it was possible that chronic exposure to Alzheimer’s risk factors would increase the p25 to a level that would contribute to neural loss. The researc...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Can Now Be Used For Mind Reading

...event. "This study shows that, as you search for memories of a particular event, your brain state progressiv...tudy. "An every-day strategy for getting at lost memories involves using a part of a memory to pull out the entire thought, much like when you try remember wh...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Can Be Prevented?

...etc. People suffer from recurrences of these bad memories which are intense //and painful and eventually cau...e come up with a pill that could erase all the bad memories or atleast reduce the pain. Psychiatrist Hilary Klein has witnessed a lot of cases who later go o...

Glucose Boosts Memory Retention

... level stimulates the brain’s capacity to make new memories and recall old ones. But on the other hand health officials and// dentists condemn these drinks, which have increased sugar levels. A group of psychologists said that a single drink high in glucose content has found to increase memory levels by 20...

Soft Drinks Can Strengthen Memory Power

... brain known as the hippocampus, which creates new memories but declines with the onset of dementia. Dr Riby used a series of memory tests and brain- imaging techniques to assess how volunteers responded after guzzling sugary drinks. He found the hippocampus lit up with activity after participants had a sw...

Want to memorise better for the exams: stay hungry!!!

...rve connections in the area of the brain where new memories are formed. The Yale University is credited with the study and it features in the journal Nature Neuroscience. In the words of Professor Stephen Bloom, an expert in appetite regulation at Imperial College London, “Memory can be switched on and o...

Human Hormone Cortisol Could Be Used For Treating Phobias

...ed levels of cortisol help us to blank out painful memories and emotions, allowing us to deal more effectively with stressful situations. Phobics may have a naturally low cortisol level, which means that the first time they encounter a spider or have to stand in front of an audience, they develop an intense...

New Therapy For Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome

...on of the variant protein for a long time. Most memories decay naturally, but people under extreme stress p...stress hormones during the traumatic event, so the memories are stored differently. However, in the past few years there has been a greater recognition that ...

Snap Shot of the Drinking Habits of the Scots and Its Associated Memory Loss

...ies found that a large percentage was losing their memories as a result of alcohol. In Aberdeen, 100 % said that they had suffered memory loss due to drinking at some point and 41 % revealed that they had experienced in the previous week. In Glasgow about 98 % suffering some memory loss and 42 % of them in th...

Risk Of Dementia May Be Reduced By Mediterranean Diet

...s accept their findings relied heavily on people's memories of what they ate, but said a tested dietary assessment technique had been used. Nicholas Scarmeas, who led the research, said: "Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with a reduction in risk for Alzheimer's disease." --Edited...

Limit Water Intake, London Marathon Runners Told

...but most of the patients in our study had confused memories of running the marathon and many did not remember ...o drink safely and leave the event with some great memories of their achievements."...

The Memory Retains Things that We Have forgotten

...y in which they explain that our brain houses more memories than we think it, does. According to the online ed...adults and found that the healthy brain might hold memories that we have supposedly forgotten. The researchers initially showed the participants a list of 12...

Site of Sleep Regulation Identified in Fruit Flies

...to the human hippocampus, the site where long-term memories are made, our lab tends to think of the mushroom bodies functioning more like the thalamus, the relay station through which most sensory input to the brain is targeted," explains Sehgal. "Previous research links the thalamus to a role in human sleep....

Sleep Essential For A Strong Memory

...eep would probably help the human brain to enhance memories like the ability to recall recently learned facts....udy to demonstrate that sleep protects declarative memories from associative interference in the subsequent day," the researchers wrote, explaining further that...

Researchers Find Fewer Neurons in the Amygdala of Males with Autism

...g appropriate emotional responses and assimilating memories that are key to social learning – functions that are impaired by autism. “Previous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies from several laboratories, including the M.I.N.D. Institute, have indicated precocious enlargement of the amygdala in young ...

Weight-Loss Surgeries Changing Lives

...ants to enter a dance competition and rekindle her memories of dancing folklorico (a traditional Mexican dance) in high school. Alma looks forward to going back to school in preparation for a professional career. “I don’t want to go back to being the person I used to be,” said Lorena. We had the surgery for...

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