News tagged with long term
Sleep helps build long-term memories
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts have long suspected that part of the process of turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting long-term memories occurs during sleep. Now, researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for ...
Calcium -- the secret to honeybees' memory
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Long-term memory formation in honeybees is instigated by a calcium ion cascade. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology have shown that calcium acts as a switch between short- and long-term storage of lea ...
Lengthy daily stints in front of the TV linked to doubled childhood asthma risk
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Young children who spend more than two hours glued to the TV every day double their subsequent risk of developing asthma, indicates research published ahead of print in Thorax.
Thumbs down for new testosterone patch to boost women's sex drive
Mar 03, 2009 |
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A new testosterone patch, designed to pep up a woman's flagging sex drive after womb and ovary removal, may not work, and its long term safety is not proven, says Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB).
A more rational and scientific approach to AIDS is needed, says expert
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 26, 2008 |
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The Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has lost valuable ground by ignoring for years the contribution of long-term concurrent relationships to Africa's AIDS epidemic, claims an expert ...
New understanding of how we remember traumatic events
Oct 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long term memories.
Researchers identified a protein essential in long term memory consolidation
Sep 09, 2008 |
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New research at the University of Haifa identified a specific protein essential for the process of long term memory consolidation. This is the latest of several discoveries that are leading us towards a better understanding ...
