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Wordless Holocaust memories speak truths for today

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Holocaust has shaped discourse on collective, social and cultural memory, serving both as touchstone and paradigm, according to a study published this month in the journal Memory Studies, published by SAGE.





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Overweight individuals have greater risk of reduced memory and thinking skills in late life

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Individuals with higher mid-life Body Mass Index (BMI) in the 1960s have been found to have lower memory and thinking skills and a sharper decline in these abilities in old age, compared to those with lower BMI in mid-life.


New study may help understand how Alzheimer's robs sufferers of episodic memory

New study may help understand how Alzheimer's robs sufferers of episodic memory

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Memory loss is love's great thief. Those who suffer aren't just the ones who can't remember—family, friends and loved ones agonize over how to react when the disorder begins its often inexorable progress.


Early warning: Key Alzheimer's brain changes observed in unimpaired older humans

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research has uncovered an early disruption in the process of memory formation in older humans who exhibit some early brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) but show little or no memory impairment. The ...


Researchers use computational models to study fear

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The brain is a complex system made of billions of neurons and thousands of connections that relate to every human feeling, including one of the strongest emotions, fear. Most neurological fear studies have been rooted in ...


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To make memories, new neurons must erase older ones

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections. That's the conclusion of a report in the November 13th issue of the journal Cell that provid ...


You can't trust a tortured brain: Neuroscience discredits coercive interrogation

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 12

According to a new review of neuroscientific research, coercive interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration to extract information from terrorist suspects are likely to have been unsuccessful and may have ...


Brain damage seen on brain scans may predict memory loss in old age

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Areas of brain damage seen on brain scans and originally thought to be related to stroke may help doctors predict a person's risk of memory problems in old age, according to research published in the August 11, 2009, print ...


Music makes you smarter

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Regularly playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills.


Researchers identify one of the necessary processes in the formation of long-term memory

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study that was carried out at the University of Haifa has identified another component in the chain of actions that take place in the neurons in the process of forming memories. This discovery joins a line of findings ...


New memory material may hold data for one billion years

New memory material may hold data for one billion years

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (45) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you ...



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