News tagged with forgetfulness
Brain region can signal early-stage Alzheimer's and other dementias
(Medical Xpress) -- A key misplaced yet again? Unable to recall a name? Forgetfulness frequently leads to anxiety: is it just a sign of age, or are these the first symptoms of the onset of Alzheimer’s ...
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Jan 12, 2012 |
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Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows
(Medical Xpress) -- We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.
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Nov 17, 2011 |
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Combination of available tests helps predict Alzheimer's disease risk
With age, forgetfulness and other signs of memory loss sometimes appear, prompting elderly individuals to seek a medical evaluation amid fears that they may be experiencing early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the ...
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Oct 20, 2011 |
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Forgetting is part of remembering
It's time for forgetting to get some respect, says Ben Storm, author of a new article on memory in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. "We need to rethink how we ...
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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Everyone's a little bit racist, but it may not be your fault, study suggests
Everyone's a little bit racist, posits the song from the musical Avenue Q. But it may not be your fault, according to research in the latest edition of the British Journal of Social Psychology. In looking for the culprit as to ...
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Sep 29, 2011 |
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Insulin may slow Alzheimer's, study finds
Inhaling a concentrated cloud of insulin through the nose twice a day appears to slow - and in some cases reverse - symptoms of memory loss in people with early signs of Alzheimer's disease, a new pilot study has found.
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Sep 13, 2011 |
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New research shows that we control our forgetfulness
Have you heard the saying "You only remember what you want to remember"? Now there is evidence that it may well be correct. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that we can train ourselves to forget things.
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Jul 05, 2011 |
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Spring-cleaning the mind? Study shows a cluttered brain doesn't remember
Lapses in memory occur more frequently with age, yet the reasons for this increasing forgetfulness have not always been clear. According to new research from Concordia University, older individuals have reduced learning and ...
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Apr 19, 2011 |
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70-year-olds smarter than they used to be
Today's 70-year-olds do far better in intelligence tests than their predecessors. It has also become more difficult to detect dementia in its early stages, though forgetfulness is still an early symptom, reveals new research ...
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Oct 22, 2010 |
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In learning, the brain forgets things on purpose
Scientists have known that newly acquired, short-term memories are often fleeting. But a new study in flies suggests that kind of forgetfulness doesn't just happen. Rather, an active process of erasing memories may in some ...
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Feb 18, 2010 |
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Psychologists develop tools to predict cognitive impairment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologists Charles Brainerd and Valerie Reyna are looking for ways to identify people at risk for developing cognitive impairment - early on, when chances for successful intervention are highest.
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Jan 25, 2010 |
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Five tips for stress-free exams
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's exam time, and for many students that means long days, late nights and lots of coffee. It's easy to let the anxiety get to you, so what can you do to cope with exam tension?
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Early identification of dementia increasingly difficult
If grandma seems to forget things, will she end up demented? These days, memory loss is one of the very few symptoms that may signal which 70-year-olds risk developing dementia. This is shown in a doctoral thesis at the Sahlgrenska ...
May 20, 2009 |
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Bad mood, better recall, researchers find
People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.
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Apr 11, 2009 |
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Forgetting
Forgetting (retention loss) refers to apparent loss of information already encoded and stored in an individual's long term memory. It is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled from memory storage. It is subject to delicately balanced optimization that ensures that relevant memories are recalled. Forgetting can be reduced by repetition and/or more elaborate cognitive processing of information. Reviewing information in ways that involve active retrieval seems to slow the rate of forgetting.
Forgetting functions (amount remembered as a function of time since an event was first experienced) have been extensively analyzed. The most recent evidence suggests that a power function provides the closest mathematical fit to the forgetting function. [1]
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