Recent Memory News from ScienceDaily:
- A new way by which the human brain marks time
- Early child deprivation and neglect impair memory and executive functioning at age 16
- Memory of last meal influences when, how much rats eat next
- The human brain works backwards to retrieve memories
- Men and women remember pain differently
- Decreased deep sleep linked to early signs of Alzheimer’s disease
- Post-traumatic stress disorder: alleviating flashbacks by playing Tetris
- Drug can temporarily boost long-term memory of objects
- New insight into the process of generation of new neurons in the adult brain
- Long-term memory encoding engram neurons are established by the transcriptional cycling
- New insight on how memory works
- New memory study first to use intracranial recordings
- How the brain reacts to loss of vision
- Lasting impact of concussions on young adults
- Unrelated events are linked in memory when they happen close together
- How returning to a prior context briefly heightens memory recall
- Improved treatment of anxiety disorders
- Music evokes powerful positive emotions through personal memories
- Memory tests predict brain atrophy and Alzheimer’s disease
- Targeted cognitive training benefits patients with severe schizophrenia
- Hysterectomy linked to memory deficit in an animal model
- Drawing is better than writing for memory retention
- Friend or foe? Brain area that controls social memory also triggers aggression
- The ‘best prospect’ for ensuring success in demanding roles
- Touch can produce detailed, lasting memories
- Scientists decode mechanism of remembering — and forgetting — in fruit flies
- Orange juice, leafy greens and berries may be tied to decreased memory loss in men
- Antioxidants may prevent cognitive impairment in diabetes
- When storing memories, brain prioritizes those experiences that are most rewarding
- Making moves and memories, are they connected?
- So, you think you’re good at remembering faces, but terrible with names?
- Selective amnesia: How rats and humans are able to forget distracting memories
- New insights into the neural risks and benefits of marijuana use
- How clear speech equates to clear memory
- Happy childhood memories linked to better health later in life
- New device improves balance in veterans with Gulf War Illness
- New studies on student alcohol use can inform interventions to reduce blackouts
- Changes to RNA aid the process of learning and memory
- Link between what we see and how we remember ‘breaks’ as we get older
- Just a few drinks can change how memories are formed
- Repeated interferon stimulation creates innate immune memory
- A new model for how working memory gets you through the day
- To see what’s right in front of you, your brain may need some rewiring
- Good spatial memory? You’re likely to be good at identifying smells too
- Insights on the effects of exercise on cognitive performance
- Memory ‘brainwaves’ look the same in sleep and wakefulness
- Club drug GHB associated with brain and cognitive changes
- How sleep deprivation hinders memory
- Anxious and forgetful after menopause? Low estrogen may be to blame
- Scientists use AI to develop better predictions of why children struggle at school
Recent Brain Injury News from ScienceDaily:
- Athletes should build neck strength to reduce concussion risk, researchers recommend
- Stroke drug may also prevent Alzheimer’s disease
- Scientists harness machine learning to uncover new insights into the human brain
- Brain plasticity restored in adult mice through targeting specific nerve cell connections
- New insight into the process of generation of new neurons in the adult brain
- Rerouting nerves during amputation reduces phantom limb pain before it starts
- Understanding repetitive head impacts in sports
- Parkinson’s disease protein buys time for cell repair
- Lasting impact of concussions on young adults
- MRI technique shows unique signatures of concussion in rugby players
- Two-step control mechanism identified in mouse stem cells
- Origins of Pain
- Using water molecules to unlock neurons’ secrets
- Regrowing damaged nerves hinges on shutting down key genes
- Optimal blood pressure treatment for stroke patients
- Youth football changes nerve fibers in brain
- Rewriting the brain pathway for consciousness
- Slowed brainwaves linked to early signs of brain cells going haywire due to dementia
- How head injuries lead to serious brain diseases
- Playing high school football changes the teenage brain
- Making moves and memories, are they connected?
- A 15-minute scan could help diagnose brain damage in newborns
- New concussion recommendations for kids
- Mild blast forces cause brain pathology and deficits, despite lack of macroscopic damage
- One type of brain cell might hold key to inflammation after head injury
- Disrupted circadian rhythms may drive anxiety and exacerbate brain disorders
- New gene therapy reprograms brain glial cells into neurons
- Traumatic brain injuries can lead to long-term neurological and psychiatric disorders
- New study finds evidence of brain injuries in football players at surprisingly young age
- Neuroscientists find molecular clue in ALS, suggesting potential new drug target
- Concussion and college football: How many hits to the head is too much?
- To see what’s right in front of you, your brain may need some rewiring
- Football players’ concussions linked to dyslexia gene
- Good spatial memory? You’re likely to be good at identifying smells too
- Brain cells called astrocytes have unexpected role in brain ‘plasticity’
- Study points to new method to deliver drugs to the brain
- Modifiable dementia risk factor in older adults identified
- New immunotherapy targeting blood-clotting protein
- Neck device shows promise in protecting the brain of female soccer players
- Thalamus wakes the brain during development
- Implantable, biodegradable devices speed nerve regeneration in rats
- How can we reduce concussions in football? Change kickoffs, experts say
- Can chiropractic care disrupt vision?
- The hormone FGF23 is linked to structural deficits in the brain
- New cause of brain bleeds identified
- Possible molecular pathway for neurodegeneration in prion diseases
- Zombie cells found in brains of mice prior to cognitive loss
- Brain recovery: Activity, not rest, may speed recovery after brain injury
- New CDC guidelines detail treatment of pediatric mild traumatic brain injury
- B cells among factors leading to brain lesions in multiple sclerosis
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)
