Scanning the brains of sleeping toddlers, researchers found the hippocampus is activated as memories for new words are formed. The findings suggest the hippocampus plays an important role in the formation of new word memories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Reactivating Memories During Sleep Improves Motor Skills
Performance of newly acquired motor skills can be improved by reactivating memories during sleep, a new study finds.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Serotonin Stabilizes Social Memories
Serotonin-producing neurons in the brainstem release serotonin throughout the brain during moments of novel social encounters. The release of serotonin stimulates neurons in the medial septum via a subtype of serotonin-sensitive receptor molecules. Blo…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Why Do We Remember Stressful Experiences Better?
Memories of objects from stressful situations rely on similar neural activity to memories of the stressful events themselves.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Highly Processed Foods Harm Memory in the Aging Brain
A diet high in processed foods leads to neuroinflammation and memory decline in older rats, a new study reports. Supplementing a processed food diet with DHA, an omega 3 fatty acid, helped mitigate memory problems and reduce inflammation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Common Chemicals in Electronics and Baby Products Harm Brain Development
Exposure to even low levels of common chemicals called organophosphate esters can harm IQ, memory, learning, and brain development overall in young children.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Chemotherapy Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice
Axitinib, a chemotherapy drug that inhibits the growth of new blood vessels in the brain, improved memory and cognition in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Sense of Purpose Associated With Better Memory
While sense of purpose and cognitive function improved memory recall, sense of purpose alone boosted vividness and coherence in memory.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Endocannabinoids Keep the Brain in Balance
Endocannabinoids actively balance neural connections, allowing cells to either activate or inhibit each other. The findings shed light on the role endocannabinoids play in learning and some psychiatric disorders.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Intestinal Drug Shown to Boost Memory and Cognition
Prucalopride, a medication commonly prescribed to treat constipation, may help improve memory and cognition. People prescribed the drug for 6 days performed better in memory tests and had increased activity in brain areas associated with cognition.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Study Bolsters Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease
Study shows chronic hyperglycemia impairs working memory performance and alters fundamental aspects of working memory brain networks. The findings strengthen the link between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Early Accumulation of Tau in the Brain Predicts Memory Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease
PET study finds early accumulation of the tau protein in the brain is a better predictor of Alzheimer’s associated memory decline than amyloid plaque accumulation or cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Hippocampus Is the Brain’s Storyteller
The hippocampus brings pieces of memories together over time and forms them into connective, narrative memories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Anti-Seizure Medication Improves Cognitive Function in Some Alzheimer’s Patients
Levetiracetam, an inexpensive drug commonly used in the treatment of epilepsy, improved memory, learning, and cognition for Alzheimer’s patients who experience epilepsy activity in their brains.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Magnetic Stimulation of the Brain Can Improve Episodic Memory
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) applied to the left prefrontal cortex can improve episodic memory performance by reducing the power of low frequency of brain waves during memory formation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Mice’s Learning Skills Help Researchers Pinpointing Brain Areas Where Acquired Knowledge Is Stored
Study finds part of the category knowledge is already present in the early visual brain areas, revealing how widespread semantic memories are stored throughout the brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Preliminary Research Finds That Even Mild Cases of COVID-19 Leave a Mark on the Brain, but It’s Not Yet Clear How Long It Lasts
Preliminary new findings are raising concerns about the long-term effect of mild COVID-19 infection on neurological health and cognition.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Sniffing Out How Associative Memories Are Formed
Dopamine-controlled fan cells in the lateral entorhinal cortex are required for the formation of associative memories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Quality, Not Quantity, of Cardiovascular Fat Can Interfere With Memory Later in Life
Greater radiodensity of perivascular adipose tissue in women during midlife was associated with decreased working memory performance later in life.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Mediterranean Diet Leads to Better Cognitive Functions and Memory
Study reveals a direct link between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and improved cognitive function.
