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June 15, 2024

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Vitamin B6: New Compound Delays Degradation

June 14, 2024 — A low vitamin B6 level has negative effects on brain performance. A research team has now found a way to delay the degradation of the ...

Studies Uncover the Critical Role of Sleep in the Formation of Memories

June 13, 2024 — A lack of sleep can make it extraordinarily difficult to retain information. Two new studies uncover why this is and what is happening inside the brain during sleep and sleep deprivation to help or harm the formation of ...

Depressive Symptoms in Young Adults Linked to Thinking, Memory Problems in Midlife

June 12, 2024 — People who experience prolonged depressive symptoms starting in young adulthood may have worse thinking and memory skills in middle age, according to a new study. The study also found that depressive ...

Depressive Symptoms May Hasten Memory Decline in Older People

June 11, 2024 — The researchers concluded that depression and memory were closely interrelated, with both seeming to affect each ...

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Astrocytes Induce Sex-Specific Effects on Memory

May 30, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered the first evidence that astrocyte receptors can trigger opposite effects on cognitive function in male and female preclinical models. The findings point to astrocytes, brain ...

Does Having a Child With Low Birth Weight Increase a Person's Risk of Dementia?

June 12, 2024 — People who give birth to infants less than 5.5 pounds may be more likely to have memory and thinking problems later in life than people who give ...

How Does Oxygen Depletion Disrupt Memory Formation in the Brain?

June 7, 2024 — When we learn something new, our brain cells (neurons) communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. If the same group of neurons communicate together often, the connections ...

Higher Blood Pressure Is Associated With Poorer Cognition in Adolescence

June 5, 2024 — Adolescents with elevated blood pressure and arterial stiffness may experience poorer cognitive functions, according to a recent study. Young people with higher blood pressure performed worse, ...

In the Brain at Rest, Neurons Rehearse Future Experience

May 30, 2024 — New research sheds light on how individual neurons in the hippocampus of rats stabilize and tune spatial representations during periods of rest following the animals' first time running a maze, ...

First Hints of Memory Problems Associated With Changes in the Brain

May 29, 2024 — People who report early memory problems and whose partners also suspect they have memory problems have higher levels of tau tangles in the brain, a biomarker associated with Alzheimer's ...

Understanding a Broken Heart

May 24, 2024 — The stress of heart failure is remembered by the body and appears to lead to recurrent failure, along with other related health issues, according to new research. Researchers have found that heart ...

Exercise Spurs Neuron Growth and Rewires the Brain, Helping Mice Forget Traumatic and Addictive Memories

May 20, 2024 — Researchers have found that increased neuron formation and the subsequent rewiring of neural circuits in the hippocampus through exercise or genetic ...

Eurasian Jays Can Use 'Mental Time Travel' Like Humans, Study Finds

May 15, 2024 — Eurasian jays can remember incidental details of past events, which is characteristic of episodic memory in humans, according to a new ...

The Crystallization of Memory: Study Reveals How Practice Forms New Memory Pathways in the Brain

May 15, 2024 — A new study has shown that repetitive practice not only is helpful in improving skills but also leads to profound changes in the brain's memory ...

Study Links Sleep Apnea Severity During REM Stage to Verbal Memory Decline

May 14, 2024 — A research team has revealed the link between the frequency of sleep apnea events during the rapid-eye-movement stage and the severity of verbal memory impairment in older adults at risk for ...

People Without an Inner Voice Have Poorer Verbal Memory

May 14, 2024 — The vast majority of people have an ongoing conversation with themselves, an inner voice, that plays an important role in their daily lives. But between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have ...

What Makes a Memory? It May Be Related to How Hard Your Brain Had to Work

May 13, 2024 — The human brain filters through a flood of experiences to create specific memories. Why do some of the experiences in this deluge of sensory information become 'memorable,' while most are ...

Study Shows Heightened Sensitivity to PTSD in Autism

May 9, 2024 — A new study shows that a mild stress is enough to trigger post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in mouse models of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Researchers demonstrated that the two disorders ...

'Mathematical Microscope' Reveals Novel, Energy-Efficient Mechanism of Working Memory That Works Even During Sleep

May 8, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a mechanism that creates memories while reducing metabolic cost, even during sleep. This efficient memory occurs in a part of the brain that is crucial for learning and ...

Dynamic DNA Structures and the Formation of Memory

May 1, 2024 — An international collaborative research team has discovered that G-quadraplex DNA (G4-DNA) accumulates in neurons and dynamically controls the activation and repression of genes underlying long-term ...

Losing Keys and Everyday Items 'Not Always Sign of Poor Memory'

May 1, 2024 — The mysteries of how memory works are explained in a new book that suggests anyone can boost their powers of recall -- and that losing your keys is ...

Network Model Unifies Recency and Central Tendency Biases

Apr. 24, 2024 — Neuroscientists have revealed that recency bias in working memory naturally leads to central tendency bias, the phenomenon where people's (and animals') judgements are biased towards the ...

Good Heart Health in Middle Age May Preserve Brain Function Among Black Women as They Age

Apr. 24, 2024 — Cognitive decline among Black women linked to poor heart health in middle ...

Eye-Opener: Pupils Enlarge When People Focus on Tasks

Apr. 22, 2024 — Normally, a person's pupils naturally widen (or dilate) in low-light environments to allow more light into the eye. However, in a new study, researchers reported that a person's pupils also ...

Does Using Your Brain More at Work Help Ward Off Thinking, Memory Problems?

Apr. 17, 2024 — The harder your brain works at your job, the less likely you may be to have memory and thinking problems later in life, according to a new study. This study does not prove that stimulating work ...

Workings of Working Memory Detailed

Apr. 17, 2024 — Investigators have discovered how brain cells responsible for working memory -- the type required to remember a phone number long enough to dial it -- coordinate intentional focus and short-term ...

Take It from the Rats: A Junk Food Diet Can Cause Long-Term Damage to Adolescent Brains

Apr. 15, 2024 — A study on the effects of a junk food diet on rats reinforces scientific understanding about the gut-brain ...

Brainless Memory Makes the Spinal Cord Smarter Than Previously Thought

Apr. 11, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the neural circuitry in the spinal cord that allows brain-independent motor learning. The study found two critical groups of spinal cord neurons, one necessary for new ...

New Origin of Deep Brain Waves Discovered

Apr. 10, 2024 — Biomedical engineering researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow waves and sleep spindles. Traditionally believed to originate from ...

New Technique Sheds Light on Memory and Learning

Apr. 9, 2024 — The findings may also have implications for learning and memory disorders, including Fragile X ...

Blended Antioxidant Supplement Improves Cognition and Memory in Aged Mice

Apr. 2, 2024 — Cell damage from oxidative stress is a major underlying cause of age-related cognitive and muscle strength decline. Antioxidants can reduce oxidative stress and prevent age-related health decline. A ...

Mechanism Found to Determine Which Memories Last

Mar. 28, 2024 — Neuroscientists have established in recent decades the idea that some of each day's experiences are converted by the brain into permanent memories during sleep the same night. Now, a new study ...

Making Long-Term Memories Requires Nerve-Cell Damage

Mar. 27, 2024 — Just as you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, scientists have found that you can't make long-term memories without DNA damage and brain ...

A Decade of Aphantasia Research: What We've Learned About People Who Can't Visualize

Mar. 27, 2024 — People who can't visualize an image in their mind's eye are less likely to remember the details of important past personal events or to recognize faces, according to a review of nearly ten ...