Recent Memory News from ScienceDaily:
- Research unravels what makes memories so detailed and enduring
- Study sheds light on brain mechanism activated by uncertainty
- Understanding the link between hearing loss and dementia
- New electronic skin can react to pain like human skin
- New form of brain analysis engages whole brain for the first time
- How ‘swapping bodies’ with a friend changes our sense of self
- Unlocking the mysteries of the brain
- Why babies don’t always remember what they have learned
- Brain remapping dysfunction causes spatial memory impairment in Alzheimer’s disease
- Naming guides how 12-month-old infants encode and remember objects
- Researchers discover protective factor against psychological trauma
- New diagnostic criteria shine light on early dementia mimics
- Recalling memories from a third-person perspective changes how our brain processes them
- Adaptation in single neurons provides memory for language processing
- Aging memories may not be ‘worse’, just ‘different’
- New molecule reverses Alzheimer’s-like memory decline
- Can sleep protect us from forgetting old memories?
- Eye-tracking tech helps aged care assessment
- Hydrogel mimics human brain with memorizing and forgetting ability
- Remember the first time you…? Mysterious brain structure sheds light on addiction
- Food supplements may improve brain health among young children in low income countries
- Brain network mechanism causing spatial memory impairment revealed
- ‘Love hormone’ oxytocin could be used to treat cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s
- A ‘feeling’ for dementia? New findings on subjectively perceived memory problems
- Keeping innocent people out of jail using the science of perception
- Why are memories attached to emotions so strong?
- Couldn’t socially distance? Blame your working memory
- Older adults share fewer memories as they age
- Why some words may be more memorable than others
- New study examines recursive thinking
- ‘Where are my keys?’ and other memory-based choices probed in the brain
- Smokers good at math are more likely to want to quit
- Memory impairment in mice reduced by soy derivate that can enter the brain intact
- New insights into Alzheimer’s disease
- A fair reward ensures a good memory
- Antihistamines and similar drugs could slow down Huntington’s disease
- Forgot where you parked the car? Research suggests memory is a game of all or nothing
- Memory consolidation during REM sleep
- Early-life education improves memory in old age — Especially for women
- Adult neurogenesis essential for sleep-induced memory consolidation in mice
- Why some older adults remember better than others
- A child’s brain activity reveals their memory ability
- Brain’s ‘updating mechanisms’ may create false memories
- Family environment affects adolescent brain development
- Found: Brain structure that controls our behavior
- High five! It’s possible to create proximity online
- Maintaining heart health may protect against cognitive decline
- Aerobics may be a smart workout for your brain at any age
- How memory function could be preserved after brain injury
- Evidence that human brains replay our waking experiences while we sleep
Recent Brain Injury News from ScienceDaily:
- Key role of immune cells in brain infection
- Concussions are a risk for young athletes in all sports — not just football, study finds
- Concussion discovery reveals dire, unknown effect of even mild brain injuries
- Vitamin B1 deficiency a key factor in the development of alcohol-related dementia
- Older women with type 2 diabetes have different patterns of blood use in their brains
- Brain’s immune cells promising cellular target for therapeutics
- Children use both brain hemispheres to understand language, unlike adults
- Brain estrogen is key to brain protection when oxygen is low
- Strokes in babies are surprisingly common; here’s how the body rushes to the rescue
- What is cerebral venous thrombosis? Study finds blood clot condition on the rise
- New blood, new hope: Transfusions protect the brain from stroke damage
- Deep chest compressions can prevent brain damage during cardiac arrest
- Brain remapping dysfunction causes spatial memory impairment in Alzheimer’s disease
- Improving treatment of spinal cord injuries
- Key to dialogue between brain cells to protect against stroke
- Can sleep protect us from forgetting old memories?
- Inflammation induced blood-brain barrier dysfunction studied in organoids
- How renegade protein interrupts brain cell function in Alzheimer’s disease
- Researchers simulate, assess damage to brain cells caused by bubbles during head trauma
- Concussions associated with cognitive, behavioral, and emotional consequences for students
- High school athletes require longer recovery following concussions
- ‘Love hormone’ oxytocin could be used to treat cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s
- Long-studied protein could be a measure of traumatic brain injury
- Why are memories attached to emotions so strong?
- A novel therapeutic target for recovery after stroke
- Neurobiology: How much oxygen does the brain need?
- Repeated head impacts associated with later-life depression symptoms, worse cognitive function
- Clear signs of brain injury with severe COVID-19
- COVID-19 threatens the entire nervous system
- Clues to aging come to light in vivid snapshots of brain cell links
- High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the brain
- Protecting the neuronal architecture
- Optimal time to treat Huntington’s disease identified
- Scientists find evidence of link between diesel exhaust, risk of Parkinson’s
- Found: Brain structure that controls our behavior
- How experiencing traumatic stress leads to aggression
- Aging neurons accumulate DNA damage
- Dynamic stimulation of the visual cortex allows blind and sighted people to ‘see’ shapes
- ‘Cell pores’ discovery gives hope to millions of brain and spinal cord injury patients
- New imaging tool helps researchers see extent of Alzheimer’s early damage
- How memory function could be preserved after brain injury
- New targets for childhood brain tumors identified
- Scientists regenerate neurons in mice with spinal cord injury and optic nerve damage
- Alzheimer’s gene triggers early breakdowns in blood-brain barrier, predicting cognitive decline
- Implant-free optogenetics minimizes brain damage during neuronal stimulation
- When damaged, the adult brain repairs itself by going back to the beginning
- Novel high-speed microscope captures brain neuroactivities
- First in-human study of drug targeting brain inflammation supports further development
- Compound in fruit peels halts damage and spurs neuronal repair in multiple sclerosis
- Chilling concussed cells shows promise for full recovery
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)
