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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Can Afflict Those Battling Heart Disease

...me to terms with a traumatic event by conjuring up memories of it in a safe situation. Reconnecting with people, interests, and activities is another goal of therapy. Some people also benefit from taking an antidepressant. Source: Newswie...

Vietnam veterans affected by post-traumatic stress

... after the war and it was often based on veterans' memories that might be incorrect. Dohrenwend hopes further research is done in this area including studies that begin examining soldiers once they return from the Iraq war, will benefit future veterans....

Katrina survivors face yet another downslide - mental illness

...er, is the state of mind of the survivors, torn by memories of the disaster, resulting in many forms of mental ailments - a study revealed. The study has shown that nearly 15% of the residents of the countries and parishes, which faced the onslaught, suffer from many forms of mental ailment- depression, ...

Brain's Filing System Uncovered

...ors has identified an area of the brain where such memories are found. They report in the advanced online Nature that they have identified neurons that assist in categorizing visual stimuli. They found that the activity of neurons in a part of the brain called the parietal cortex encode the category, or meani...

Anticipation Could Have An Intense Effect On Memory

...le, it has always been known by psychologists that memories of disturbing emotional events such as an act of v...re often characterized by flashbacks and intrusive memories of upsetting events. "The main motivation for this study was a clinical one, in terms of understan...

Drug Improves Memory Loss for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

...with moderate to severe memory loss improved their memories while taking the drug rivastigmine, according to a study//. Researchers, who examined 134 men and women with traumatic brain injury at 19 centers across the United States, found attention and verbal memory test scores significantly improved among s...

Pre-Clinical Study Suggests How Steroid Can Reverse Post-Traumatic Stress

...hat fear. “Corticosterone appears to enhance new memories that compete with the fearful memory thereby decre...e success for patients with disorders of emotional memories such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias, those studies did not control for a numbe...

Eating Strawberries may boost memory

...s call "long-term potentiation" or LTP. LTP allows memories to be stored in the brain by strengthening connect...tin on long-term potentiation and the formation of memories in animals," Maher recalls. Since the hippocampus plays an important role in establishing new memo...

Stress Produces PTSD-like Symptoms in Rats

...hey relive their trauma through frequent flashback memories of the experience. The USF and VA investigators suggested that this research can serve as a tool to develop pharmacological treatments which may alleviate the symptoms of PTSD in people. “A substantial number of troops returning from the war in I...

PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon

...nia Gandhi said: "Sriperumbudur is full of painful memories for me but now I also have pleasant memories. It was Rajiv Gandhi who ushered India into the era of computers. He saw technology as an instrument of change." Source-IANS...

Improved memory with mild electric stimulation

...f cells, which are the physical representations of memories in the brain, " said Born. This study was published in the online edition of the journal Nature. Scientists believe that brain stimulation could also help people with Alzheimer’s disease. GT...

Scientists suggest a new ‘brain wave’ for sound sleep and improved memoy

... seems to augment the replay of recently imprinted memories in the brain thus enabling it to be consolidated and stored for a long term. The results of their study was published in an online medical journal,’ Nature.’ This study offers an extremely simple method which can be practically implemented as it is ...

Women in the throes of depression portray differences in brain chemistry

...." That emotional challenge was the summoning of memories of a very sad event in their lives, which the researchers asked the women to recall while they were lying in the positron emission tomography (PET) scanner having their brains imaged. The women recalled the death or serious illness of a friend or fam...

Memory And Vascular Diseases Are Linked

People who react slowly and possess bad memories are more prone to heart diseases according to an extensive study.// Dr.Beverly Shipley, aged 28, from the Psychology dept., Edinburgh University has come up with a finding that poor memory and heart attacks may be linked. She surveyed the mental ag...

Creating Memories During Sleep

...resh impressions are stored at first as short-term memories in a region of the brain called the hippocampus. Newly acquired information then gets moved after a few hours or in couple of days, to the cerebral cortex. This occurs usually during deep sleep. Thereafter it gets stored as long term memory. Inves...

Mental Health Expert Offers Tips for a Happier Holiday Season

...lidays. Financial stress, overbooked schedules and memories of “perfect” holidays past or lost loved ones can also all contribute to feelings of tension, anxiety and sadness. “In terms of relationships, nothing magical ‘just happens’ during the holidays,” said IsHak. “If you don’t get along with your in-law...

Watching With Intent to Repeat Ignites Key Learning Area of Brain

...imary motor cortex in the formation of novel motor memories through observation,” wrote Frey and research assistant Valerie E. Gerry in their conclusions. “This study is the first in a series of several experiments that we plan to do,” Frey said. “It tells us something about how our own motor systems can be...

How Many Genes Does It Take to Learn? Lessons from Sea Slugs

...icine for his work using Aplysia as a model of how memories are formed in the human brain. Despite its simple nervous system - Aplysia has about 10,000 large neurons that can be easily identified, compared with about one hundred billion neurons in humans - the animal is capable of learning and its brain cel...

Memory’s Link to Recovering from Addictio

... is a slow process in which the influence of those memories is diminished, reports the January 2007 issue of t...ficult is drug-induced change that creates lasting memories linking the drug to a pleasurable reward. Recent research shows that addiction involves many of th...

Folic Acid Improves Memory in Elderly People

...s. The folic acid group had significantly better memories and were faster at processing information, the researchers found. They had similar mental abilities to contemporaries almost five years younger, The Lancet study found. But experts said this benefit must be balanced against other risks - an increa...

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