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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 ...


Social memory in Drosophila

Social memory in Drosophila

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Positive social interactions exist within Drosophila: when in a group, Drosophila flies have better memory than when they are isolated. Thomas Preat's team at the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie (CNRS, France) ...


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 ...


SanDisk Ships Flash Memory Cards With 64 Gigabit X4 NAND Technology

SanDisk Ships Flash Memory Cards With 64 Gigabit X4 NAND Technology

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

SanDisk announced it has begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. This innovative new technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, ...


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.


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.


Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit

Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year.


Does diabetes speed up memory loss in Alzheimer's disease?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ST. PAUL, Minn. -Research has shown that diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease and the risk of memory loss in people who don't have Alzheimer's disease. But it hasn't been clear whether people with Alzheimer's ...


Early study reveals promising Alzheimer's disease treatment

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A drug once approved as an antihistamine in Russia improved thinking processes and ability to function in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study conducted there, said an expert at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. ...


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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 ...



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