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Dehydration Affects Mood, Not Just Motor Skills

Dehydration Affects Mood, Not Just Motor Skills

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dehydration has long been known to compromise physical performance. Now, a new study provides insight into the effects of mild dehydration on young athletes, and possibly into the lives of ...


Researchers reverse the cognitive impairment caused by sleep deprivation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. ...


Veterans find healing on the water (AP)

Veterans find healing on the water

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Standing at the edge of a clear pond in the Idaho mountains on a cold day in early October, former U.S. Marine Angel Gomez made a timid cast with his fly fishing rod.


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 ...


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Sleep helps build long-term memories

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts have long suspected that part of the process of turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting long-term memories occurs during sleep. Now, researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for ...


Calcium -- the secret to honeybees' memory

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Long-term memory formation in honeybees is instigated by a calcium ion cascade. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology have shown that calcium acts as a switch between short- and long-term storage of lea ...


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Decoding short-term memory with fMRI

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

People voluntarily pick what information they store in short-term memory. Now, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers can see just what information people are holding in memory based ...


Study indicates how we maintain visual details in short-term memory

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Working memory (also known as short term memory) is our ability to keep a small amount of information active in our mind. This is useful for information we need to know on-the-fly, such as a phone number or the few items ...


Angry faces take priority in our brain

Angry faces take priority in our brain

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In any social situation, we need to be aware of threats to our own safety from other people. That may be why our brains are better attuned to remembering the identity of angry faces over short ...


Researchers identified a protein essential in long term memory consolidation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0

New research at the University of Haifa identified a specific protein essential for the process of long term memory consolidation. This is the latest of several discoveries that are leading us towards a better understanding ...