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Research into Suppressed Memories Could Help Treatment for Depression

...pocampus and amygdala. These areas are involved in tasks such as visual recall, memory encoding and retrieval and emotional expression. "These results indicate memory suppression does occur, and, at least in nonpsychiatric populations, is under the control of the prefrontal cortex," the investigators rep...

Tourettes Syndrome in Children may also Result in Superior Learning Skills

...n of the same ages without the disorder were given tasks that included producing past tense forms. All of the children had a normal IQ. The researchers noted that children with Tourettes syndrome were significantly faster than the control group in producing rule-governed past tenses (such as slip-slippe...

Research Reveals Anatomy of Suppressed Memories: Study

...pocampus and amygdala. These areas are involved in tasks such as visual recall, memory encoding and retrieval and emotional expression. "These results indicate memory suppression does occur, and, at least in nonpsychiatric populations, is under the control of the prefrontal cortex," the investigators rep...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

...e secretary; organizing, planning and carrying out tasks in order of importance. It's the same region that is hard-hit in mild cognitive impairment, the precursor to Alzheimer's dementia. But Eidelberg said that the symptoms in the two diseases are quite different. But thinking that medicines used for Alzh...

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

... devices, that help stroke patients practise daily tasks with impaired limbs, are proliferating in US . ...ng that with the brace on she was able to practice tasks like folding towels, opening drawers and lifting a yoga mat from a chair to a table. One time, she w...

Researchers Say Brain Region Responsible for Pain's Ability to Seek Attention

...he researchers asked the volunteers to perform the tasks as they experienced different levels of pain cause...earchers scanned the volunteers' brains during the tasks using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) which uses harmless magnetic fields and radio wav...

Lost Sleep can Never Be Compensated for

...t feeling sleepy, even though their performance on tasks declined. Even though animals and humans may be able to adapt their sleep system to deal with repeated sleep restriction conditions, there could be negative consequences when this pattern is maintained over a long period of time, said Turek. This...

Rosehips may Be an Effective Alternative for Rheumatoid Arthritis

...assess pain, and the ability to carry out everyday tasks such as dressing, washing, opening doors, and cutting meat. After six months, activity levels improved by 20 to 25 percent for those taking LitoZin. The number of joints causing them pain and discomfort fell by 40 percent, but did not change for pa...

A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...d died, and the mouse couldn’t remember any of its tasks -- when we hit this molecular switch, the mouse recovered a lot of its memory.” To the research team, this demonstrated that Alzheimer’s is potentially a reversible process: that if deposition of AB is not stopped in time, then it may be possible to...

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