Recent Memory News from ScienceDaily:
- Research reveals no link between statins and memory loss
- New cell therapy improves memory and stops seizures following TBI
- Restoring protein homeostasis improves memory deficits in Down syndrome model
- Specific neurons that map memories now identified in the human brain
- Circuit responsible for building memories during sleep
- How to alter memories to protect consumers
- High-intensity exercise improves memory in seniors
- How will your thinking and memory change with age?
- Seizures in babies: UVA sheds light on why they have lifelong effects
- Coordinated brain activation supports spatial learning and decision-making
- Name that tune: Brain takes just 100 to 300 milliseconds to recognize familiar music
- Memory training builds upon strategy use
- Greater understanding of Alzheimer’s disease
- In Alzheimer’s research, scientists reveal brain rhythm role
- MRI may help doctors differentiate causes of memory loss
- A new discovery: How our memories stabilize while we sleep
- Fundamental insight into how memory changes with age
- Beyond the ‘replication crisis,’ does research face an ‘inference crisis’?
- Enhancing memory network via brain stimulation
- Food comas and long-term memories: New research points to an appetizing connection
- New diagnostic criteria may enable earlier detection of cognitive impairment in women
- Core symptom of schizophrenia reversed in adult mice
- Computer model helps make sense of human memory
- Manipulating specific brain waves in sleep shifts balance between learning or forgetting a new skill
- Anticipating performance can hinder memory
- Menopausal night sweats linked with cognitive dysfunction
- Saw but forgot: Drivers’ memory lapses puts motorcyclists at risk
- Hub linking movement and motivation in brain identified
- The brain may actively forget during dream sleep
- Childhood behavior linked to taking paracetamol in pregnancy
- Slower growth in working memory linked to teen driving crashes
- Shifting attention can interfere with our perceptions of reality
- Calcium channel blockers may be effective in treating memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease
- Brain: How to optimize decision making?
- Discovery of neuronal ensemble activities that is orchestrated to represent one memory
- Scientists link ‘hunger hormone’ to memory in Alzheimer’s study
- Chronic cocaine use modifies gene expression
- Lack of oxygen doesn’t kill infant brain cells
- New medication may be able to improve effects of psychological treatment for PTSD
- High-fat diet in utero protects against Alzheimer’s later
- Scientists advance search for memory’s molecular roots
- Brain takes a beating as arteries age
- Neuronal mechanism that is central to human free recall identified
- Sequential, concurrent multitasking is equally hard for men, women
- How our brain remembers the order of events
- Pinpointing how cells regulate long-lasting memories
- Negative memory storage affects depression symptoms
- Depression symptoms in Alzheimer’s could be signs for cognitive decline
- Fish preserve DNA ‘memories’ far better than humans do
- Virtual treasure hunt shows brain maps time sequence of memories
Recent Brain Injury News from ScienceDaily:
- Lithium can reverse radiation damage after brain tumor treatment
- Why only some post-stroke survivors can ‘copy what I say’
- Where does Parkinson’s disease start? In the brain or gut? Or both?
- How brain injury can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder
- Immune ‘control switch’ could prevent brain injury in premature babies
- Nerve cell protection free from side effects
- MRI may help doctors differentiate causes of memory loss
- Protein in blood protects against neuronal damage after brain hemorrhage
- Animal study shows how stress and mother’s abuse affects infant brain
- The night gardeners: Immune cells rewire, repair brain while we sleep
- Targeting immune cells may be potential therapy for Alzheimer’s
- Dealing a therapeutic counterblow to traumatic brain injury
- Researchers identify molecular process that could accelerate recovery from nerve injuries
- Blood-brain barrier damage occurs even with mild head trauma
- Fast MRIs offer alternative to CT scans for pediatric head injuries
- Alzheimer’s disease risk gene APOE4 impairs function of brain immune cells
- Advanced MRI brain scan may help predict stroke-related dementia
- Gene therapy helps functional recovery after stroke
- Repetitive impacts key to understanding sports-associated concussions
- New research provides hope for people living with chronic pain
- The birth of vision, from the retina to the brain
- Protein tangles linked with dementia seen in patients after single head injury
- Soldiers, athletes could improved outcomes from traumatic brain injuries
- Parkinson’s disease may originate in the intestines
- Emotion recognition deficits impede community integration after traumatic brain injury
- Number of years in NFL, certain positions portend greater risk for cognitive, mental health problems
- White matter affects how people respond to brain stimulation therapy
- A protective factor against Alzheimer’s disease?
- Signal blocks stem cell division in geriatric brain
- Peptide hydrogels could help heal traumatic brain injuries
- Concussions linked to erectile dysfunction in former pro football players
- Simple blood test unmasks concussions absent on CT scans
- Blood test detects concussion and subconcussive injuries in children and adults
- How memories form and fade
- New approaches to heal injured nerves
- Protein-transport discovery may help define new strategies for treating eye disease
- Multi-tasking protein at the root of neuropathic pain
- Brain takes a beating as arteries age
- Alzheimer’s drug reverses brain damage from adolescent alcohol exposure in rats
- Regulating blood supply to limbs improves stroke recovery
- Researchers refine guidelines for pediatric brain injuries
- Tissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s
- Hit your head, lose your sense of smell
- Epileptic seizures reduced in mice after removal of newborn neurons
- Cell types affected in brains of multiple sclerosis patients pinpointed
- Novel therapy administered after TBI prevents brain damage
- Gut microbes protect against neurologic damage from viral infections
- Scientists explore blood flow bump that happens when our neurons are significantly activated
- Raising eyebrows on neuroinflammation: Study finds novel role for ‘skin plumping’ molecule
- Discovery reveals prolific ability of Schwann cells to generate myelin
Other News: Brain Injury/Memory Loss
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Forgotten Dementia Sufferers Helped Through Art. While medical researchers continue the search for advanced diagnosis, prevention and treatment of dementia, a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London is focusing on improving the experiences of those already suffering with the devastating disease for whom any cure would be too late. ScienceDaily (Oct. 7, 2011)
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Potential Target for Treating Common Form of Early-Onset Dementia Identified. UCLA scientists have discovered that a key signaling pathway plays an important role in the brain disorder frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and may offer a potential target for treatment. The journal Neuron publishes the findings in its Sept. 22 edition. ScienceDaily (Sep. 22, 2011)
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Humor as Effective as Medication in Treating Agitation in Dementia. Humor therapy is as effective as widely used antipsychotic drugs in managing agitation in patients with dementia — and avoids serious drug side effects, a new study shows. ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2011)
- Human genetics study identifies the most common cause of ALS and dementia. Scientists have made an exciting breakthrough in unraveling the genetic basis of two debilitating neurodegenerative disorders, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Two independent studies identify a new human genetic mutation as the most common cause of ALS and FTD identified to date. ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2011)
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Lasers Light the Path to Neuron Regeneration. Lasers have been used to fabricate tiny scaffolds to be used as delivery vehicles to drop cells off at damaged locations and help treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2011)
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Diabetes May Significantly Increase the Risk of Dementia. People with diabetes appear to be at a significantly increased risk of developing dementia, according to a study published in the September 20, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2011)
- A Squirt of Insulin May Delay Alzheimer’s. A small pilot study has found preliminary evidence that squirting insulin deep into the nose where it travels to the brain might hold early Alzheimer’s disease at bay, University of Pennsylvania researchers said. via Gina Kolata in the New York Times. (Sept. 12, 2011)
- Have We Met Before? Direct Connections Found Between Areas of Brain Responsible for Voice and Face Recognition. Science Daily (Sep. 12, 2011)
- New Target for Treating Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. A scientist has identified how the lack of a brain chemical known as dopamine can rewire the interaction between two groups of brain cells and lead to symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. This discovery offers new hope for treating those suffering from this devastating neurodegenerative disease. Science Daily (Sep. 11, 2011)
- Newly Identified Gene Mutation Linked to Parkinson’s. A large team of international researchers have identified a new genetic cause of inherited Parkinson’s disease that they say may be related to the inability of brain cells to handle biological stress–ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2011)
- Alzheimer disease: Transport protein ABCC1 plays key role in clearing beta-amyloid from brains of mice.
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia among older people. One of the main features of AD is the presence in the brain of abnormal clumps of the protein fragment beta-amyloid. Researchers have now identified a way to reduce the amount of beta-amyloid in the brains of mice with a disease that models AD, providing hope that a similar approach could benefit patients with this devastating condition. Science Daily. (Sept. 2, 2011)
- Signs of aging may be linked to undetected blocked brain blood vessels. Tiny blocked brain vessels may be the cause of many common signs associated with older age, according to new research. Brain autopsies showed more lesions in those with the most pronounced difficulty walking. Thirty percent of small brain lesions could only be seen under a microscope after study participants died. The lesions couldn’t be detected by current scans. Science Daily. (Sep. 1, 2011)
- Researchers learn why nerve cell communication is disrupted in Alzheimer’s Disease: chemical modification of a brain enzyme. This discovery could help scientists develop new Alzheimer’s disease therapies. Science Daily (Aug. 16, 2011)
- New culprit in Alzheimer’s disease: Too many blood vessels. Scientists may have uncovered a new explanation for how Alzheimer’s disease destroys the brain — a profusion of blood vessels. They suggest that the growth of capillaries leads to a breakdown of the blood-brain barrier, allowing amyloid beta, the hallmark of the neurodegenerative disease, to be deposited in the brain tissue. Science Daily. (Aug. 31, 2011)
- Choice of seizure drug for brain tumor patients may affect survival. New research suggests brain tumor patients who take the seizure drug valproic acid on top of standard treatment may live longer than people who take other kinds of epilepsy medications to control seizures. Science Daily. Aug 31. 2011
- Neuroscientists identify how the brain remembers what happens and when. Neuroscientists have identified the parts of the brain we use to remember the timing of events within an episode. The study enhances our understanding of how memories are processed and provides a potential roadmap for addressing memory-related afflictions – Science Daily (Aug 4, 2011)
- How Memory Is Lost: Loss of Memory Due to Aging May Be Reversible. A new study published July 27 in the journal Nature shows the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in youthful ones.Science Daily (July 28, 2011)
- A Supplement That Works for Alzheimer’s Disease? New study suggests that the natural supplement Huperzine A (a AChE inhibitor) may have some promise in treating Alzheimer’s Disease but more study is needed – Journal Watch Psychiatry (May 23, 2011)
- Senior Moments: A Sign Of Worse To Come? – NPR.org (Apr 28, 2011)
- National Institute on Aging: Tips for Caregivers and Cargiver Guide – National Institute on Aging
- Autoantibodies, the cause of autoimmune diseases, are being studied by Alzheimer’s disease researchers for possible links and therapeutic value – Business Wire (March 31, 2011)
