News tagged with memory function

How to tell apart the forgetful from those at risk of Alzheimer's disease

It can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However people with aMCI are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Severe, rapid memory loss linked to future, fatal strokes

Severe, rapid memory loss may be linked to -- and could predict -- a future deadly stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Insulin resistance linked to brain health in elderly

New research from Uppsala University shows that reduced insulin sensitivity is linked to smaller brain size and deteriorated language skills in seniors. The findings are now published in the scientific journal Diabetes Ca ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A glass of milk a day could benefit your brain

Pouring at least one glass of milk each day could not only boost your intake of much-needed key nutrients, but it could also positively impact your brain and mental performance, according to a recent study in the International Da ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study reports greater brain activation after cognitive rehabilitation for MS

Neuroscientists at Kessler Foundation have documented increased cerebral activation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) following memory retraining using the modified Story Memory Technique (mSMT).

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Exergames' may provide cognitive benefit for older adults

Virtual reality-enhanced exercise, or "exergames," combining physical exercise with computer-simulated environments and interactive videogame features, can yield a greater cognitive benefit for older adults ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain function - A new way to measure the burden of aging across nations

Cognitive function may be a better indicator of the impact of aging on an economy than age-distribution, with chronological age imposing less of a social and economic burden if the population is "functionally" younger, according ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study provides potential explanation for mechanisms of associative memory

Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that a chemical compound in the brain can weaken the synaptic connections between neurons in a region of the brain important for the formation of long-term memories. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Exercise/memory research for Parkinson's

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Baltimore VA Medical Center have launched a study of exercise and computerized memory training to see if those activities may help people with Parkinson's ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drug reverses aging-associated changes in brain cells

Drugs that affect the levels of an important brain protein involved in learning and memory reverse cellular changes in the brain seen during aging, according to an animal study in the December 7 issue of The Journal of Ne ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Memory and attention problems may follow preemies into adulthood

Babies born at a very low birth weight are more likely to have memory and attention problems when they become adults than babies born at a low to normal weight, according to a study published in the December 6, 2011, print ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improved memory efficiency seen after aerobic exercise in fibromyalgia patients

Areas of the brain responsible for pain processing and cognitive performance changed in fibromyalgia patients who exercised following a medication holiday, say researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center. They say ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research in cellular memory

How do fetal cells know what cell types to become? Why do cells in the adult body sometimes forget what they are and develop into cancer cells? These are some of the questions intensively investigated within the research ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research team has developed a fully functional flexible memory

The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST) has developed fully functional flexible non-volatile resistive random access memory (RRAM) where a memory cell can ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Hippocampus plays bigger memory role than previously thought

Human memory has historically defied precise scientific description, its biological functions broadly but imperfectly defined in psychological terms. In a pair of papers published in the November 2 issue of The Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast