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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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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 ...


Lack of imagination in older adults linked to declining memory

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 07, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Most children are able to imagine their future selves as astronauts, politicians or even superheroes; however, many older adults find it difficult to recollect past events, let alone generate new ones. A new Harvard University ...


Use it or lose it? Study suggests the brain can remember a 'forgotten' language

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Many of us learn a foreign language when we are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief and we never get to hear or practice it subsequently. Our subjective impression is often that the neglected language ...


Study shows that elderly women sleep better than they think, men sleep worse

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that elderly women sleep better than elderly men even though women consistently report that their sleep is shorter and poorer.


Learning to shape your brain activity

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

A study in the Oct. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that the successful manipulation of sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) amplitude by instrumental SMR conditioning (ISC) improved sleep quality as well as declarative learning. ISC mi ...


Seeing is relieving: New hope for chronic pain sufferers

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An f1000 evaluation examines how pain relief improves greatly when the sufferer can actually see the area where the pain is occurring.


Botanicals have no effect on hot flashes or cognition: Study (w/ Podcast)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two studies conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University have found that commonly used botanicals do not have an effect on hot flashes or on cognitive function in menopausal ...


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, ...



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