A newly developed play therapy platform is helping older adults with dementia improve a range of flagging cognitive skills from concentration to memory.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Memory and Executive Function Symptoms More Accurate for Predicting CTE Than Mood and Behavior
Cognitive symptoms such as problems with memory and executive function, but not mood or motor disorders, were associated with CTE pathology. The findings advance the ability to diagnose CTE in living people. Until now, post mortem analysis was the only…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Not So Sweet: Sugary Diet Early in Life Could Lead to Cognitive Problems Later
Consuming high levels of sugar-sweetened beverages early in life may lead to memory problems during adulthood. Researchers found, compared to rats who consumed only water, those who drank sugar-sweetened beverages had difficulties in memory recall asso…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Exercise May Help Slow Cognitive Decline in Some People With Parkinson’s Disease
Exercise helped to reduce cognitive decline two years later in Parkinson’s patients with the APOE e4 gene variant.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: False Memories Can Be Reversed
Researchers have developed new techniques that can correct false memory recollections without damaging true autobiographical memories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Stronger Brain Activity After Writing on Paper Than on Tablet or Smartphone
Writing by hand increases brain activity in recall tasks over taking notes on a tablet or smartphone. Additionally, those who write by hand on paper are 25% quicker at note-taking tasks than those who use digital technology.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Could Leak in Blood-Brain Barrier Be Cause of Poor Memory?
Researchers investigate the role the blood-brain barrier may play in age-related memory problems.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Key Genes in the Brain Involved in Encoding Memories Identified
Study identified 300 “hub genes” that appear to control separate gene networks in brain tissue samples. The SAMD3 gene appears to be a master regulator to control the activity of many of the gene hubs and the genes the hubs control.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Making Decisions Based on How We Feel About Memories, Not Accuracy
Objective and subjective memories function independently and involve different areas of the brain. People who make decisions based on subjective memory rely more on how they feel about the memory than on the accuracy of the details.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: It’s Not Just Doorways That Make Us Forget What We Came for in the Next Room
Multi-tasking, and not the “doorway effect” may be responsible for why we sometimes forget the reason we enter into a room.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Watching the Brain Learn
In older mice, adult neurons in the primary visual cortex with an increased number of “silent synapses” and lacking PSD-95, showed the same structural changes only seen previously in younger animals.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Why Odors Trigger Powerful Memories
Researchers discovered unique connectivity between the hippocampus and olfactory areas in the brain, a finding which explains why specific odors can trigger powerful memories. The study also reports a loss of sense of smell is associated with depressio…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Large Number of COVID-19 Survivors Will Experience Cognitive Complications
Study reveals a significant number of COVID-19 survivors suffer from a range of neuropsychological and cognitive problems following recovery. Coronavirus survivors report experiencing PTSD, depression, memory impairments, and attention impairments upon…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Willpower Is the Key to Enhancing Learning and Memory
An increase in theta oscillations in the hippocampus help make learning and subsequent memory more efficient.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: A New Theory for How Memories Are Stored in the Brain
A new theory of memory visualizes the brain as an organic super-computer that runs complex binary code with neurons acting like mechanical computers. The theory is based on the discovery of the protein molecule, talin, which contains switch-like domain…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Reactivating Aging Stem Cells in the Brain
Increasing lamin B1 levels in aging mice resulted in neural stem cell division and an increase in the number of new neurons.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Psychological ‘Signature’ for the Extremist Mind Uncovered
Researchers conclude the mind of an extremist is marked by a mixture of conservative and dogmatic psychological signatures. Extremists tend to be cognitively cautious, slower at perceptual processing, and have weaker working memory. This is compounded …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Heart Problems Alter Gene Activity in the Hippocampus
Cardiovascular problems can alter gene activity in the hippocampus, increasing the risk for cognitive decline and memory deficits, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Exercise May Help Slow Memory Loss for People Living With Alzheimer’s Dementia
Embarking on a six-month aerobic exercise regime may help reduce cognitive decline for older adults living with Alzheimer’s disease.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New Experiences Enhance Learning by Resetting Key Brain Circuit
Novel experiences dampen previous memory representations in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, facilitating flexible strategy encoding in mice.
