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Occasional memory loss tied to lower brain volume

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 06, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (29) | comments 4

People who occasionally forget an appointment or a friend's name may have a loss of brain volume, even though they don't have memory deficits on regular tests of memory or dementia, according to a study published in the October ...





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Complaints about memory are associated with Alzheimer-related brain damage

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center found that having complaints about memory problems is associated with changes in the brain related to Alzheimer's disease. They reported their findings in the November 2006 issue ...


Hot flashes underreported and linked to forgetfulness

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Women in midlife underreport the number of hot flashes that they experience by more than 40 percent, and these hot flashes are linked to poor verbal memory, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois ...


Memory impairment associated with sound processing disorder

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created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Mild memory impairment may be associated with central auditory processing dysfunction, or difficulty hearing in complex situations with competing noise, such as hearing a single conversation amid several other conversations, ...


Potential remedy for the 'mental fog' in cancer patients

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created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia University (WVU), researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, ...


Postmenopausal women taking anastrozole as a chemopreventive treatment do not have impaired cognitive performance

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New results of a sub-study carried out as part of a worldwide breast cancer prevention study (IBIS-II) show that after two years of taking the aromatase inhibitor, anastrozole, postmenopausal women at high risk of breast ...


MRI brain scans accurate in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

MRI brain scans accurate in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

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created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

MRI scans that detect shrinkage in specific regions of the mid-brain attacked by Alzheimer's disease accurately diagnose the neurodegenerative disease, even before symptoms interfere with daily function, a ...


Intel Reports Breakthrough in Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.


Brain's role in menopause to be studied

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created Feb 20, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The U.S. National Institute on Aging is funding a five-year, $1.4 million research project to study how the brain might control the timing of menopause.


Memory loss linked to common sleep disorder

Memory loss linked to common sleep disorder

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created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

For the first time, UCLA researchers have discovered that people with sleep apnea show tissue loss in brain regions that help store memory. Reported in the June 27 edition of the journal Neuroscience Letters, the fi ...


Walking, talking and memory

Walking, talking and memory

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- How easy is it to walk, talk and remember what was said? Dr Dee Way studied how actors learn a script and whether walking affects their memory performance.



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