Recent Memory News from ScienceDaily:
- VR experiment with rats offers new insights about how neurons enable learning
- Brain activation in sleeping toddlers shows memory for words
- Why do we remember stressful experiences better?
- Stress on mothers can influence biology of future generations
- Sense of purpose associated with better memory
- Early accumulation of tau in the brain predicts memory decline in Alzheimer’s disease
- Hippocampus is the brain’s storyteller
- Magnetic stimulation of the brain can improve episodic memory, study finds
- Link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease bolstered
- New research ‘sniffs out’ how associative memories are formed
- Mice’s learning skills help researchers pinpointing brain areas where acquired knowledge is stored
- How scents take on meaning
- Research reveals drug targets for memory enhancement
- Scientists pinpoint the uncertainty of our working memory
- Brain-inspired memory device
- Do genetics control who our friends are? It seems so with mice
- Old habit-controlling neurons may also help the brain learn new tricks
- Add it up: Could this test equal a way to determine dementia risk?
- Brain signals that help memories form may influence blood sugar
- Towards next-gen computers: Mimicking brain functions with graphene-diamond junctions
- Insight into underlying causes of seizure disorder in babies
- Trains in the brain — Scientists uncover switching system used in information processing and memory
- Remember more by taking breaks
- Brain’s ‘memory center’ needed to recognize image sequences but not single sights
- Scientists reverse age-related memory loss in mice
- What does the sleeping brain think about?
- Newfound human brain cell type helps center people in mental maps
- Long-term memory setup requires a reliable delivery crew
- A redundant modular network supports proper brain communication
- Novel study of high-potency cannabis shows some memory effects
- Faulty memories of our past whereabouts: The fallacy of an airtight alibi
- Source of remarkable memory of ‘superagers’ revealed
- Memory making involves extensive DNA breaking
- Scientists discover a new class of memory cells for remembering faces
- Saturated fatty acid levels increase when making memories
- Some blood pressure-lowering meds linked to less memory decline in older adults, study finds
- Memory helps us evaluate situations on the fly, not just recall the past
- That song is stuck in your head, but it’s helping you to remember
- Earliest memories can start from the age of two-and-a-half
- Memory biomarkers confirm aerobic exercise helps cognitive function in older adults
- Flickering screens may help children with reading and writing difficulties, study suggests
- What guides habitual seeking behavior explained
- Memory details fade over time, with only the main gist preserved
- ‘Rejuvenating’ the Alzheimer’s brain
- Press (re)play to remember – How the brain strengthens memories during sleep
- Simple diagnostic tool predicts individual risk of Alzheimer’s
- Brain’s memory center stays active during ‘infantile amnesia’
- These cognitive exercises help young children boost their math skills, study shows
- Alzheimer protein APP regulates learning and social behavior in the healthy brain
- New complexity of traveling brain waves in memory circuits
Recent Brain Injury News from ScienceDaily:
- Specific molecular mechanism that controls the transition from acute to chronic pain
- Pilot study explores neural mechanisms of balance dysfunction after traumatic brain injury
- Drug helps sensory neurons regrow in the mouse central nervous system
- Developing a treatment for vision loss through transplant of photoreceptor precursors
- Cleaning the brain after ischemic stroke
- In neurodegenerative diseases, brain immune cells have a ‘ravenous appetite’ for sugar
- Brain damage from long stays in space
- Toxic fatty acids to blame for brain cell death after injury
- Gene therapy can restore vision after stroke
- Back pain: Psychological treatment shown to yield strong, lasting pain relief, alter brain networks
- Scientists find vital link to identify people at risk of aneurysms
- Infection hinders blood vessel repair following traumatic brain or cerebrovascular injuries
- Preventing the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury
- New study puts focus on early symptoms of Huntington’s disease
- Family of proteins offers promise as ischemic stroke treatment, preclinical trial finds
- Young athletes with history of concussions may have more changes to their brains
- Portable MRI provides life-saving information to doctors treating strokes
- Brain organoids develop optic cups that respond to light
- How hormones may alleviate side-specific movement difficulties after brain injury
- No signs of brain injury post-acute COVID-19, study finds
- Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson’s disease
- Excess coffee: A bitter brew for brain health
- Scientists discover gene therapy provides neuroprotection to prevent glaucoma vision loss
- Professional rugby may be associated with changes in brain structure, study finds
- A novel method for the rapid repair of peripheral nerve injuries
- For concussion patients, CTs offer window into recovery
- 3D ‘assembloid’ shows how SARS-CoV-2 infects brain cells
- Brain mapping method illuminates targets for treating neuropsychiatric symptoms
- New signaling pathway could shed light on damage repair during brain injury
- Pioneering noninvasive technique for neurological conditions
- Saturated fatty acid levels increase when making memories
- Glial cells help mitigate neurological damage in Huntington’s disease
- Protein linked to heart health, disease a potential therapeutic target for dementia
- Link found between gut microbes and stroke
- Head impacts linked to imaging changes in youth football players
- New glial cells discovered in the brain: Implications for brain repair
- ‘Roadmaps’ of the brain reveal regions vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease
- New drug to halt dementia after multiple head injuries
- Computer simulations of the brain can predict language recovery in stroke survivors
- Scientists identify mechanism linking traumatic brain injury to neurodegenerative disease
- Alzheimer’s: Blood oxygen levels could explain why memory loss is an early symptom
- Alzheimer protein APP regulates learning and social behavior in the healthy brain
- An illuminating possibility for stroke treatment: Nano-photosynthesis
- New finding suggests cognitive problems caused by repeat mild head hits could be treated
- Chronic exposure to low levels of blast may be associated with neurotrauma
- Brain changes following traumatic brain injury share similarities with Alzheimer’s disease
- Supplement treats schizophrenia in mice, restores healthy ‘dance’ and structure of neurons
- Biologists investigate effects of bisphenols on nerve cells
- Altering traumatic memories
- ‘Brain glue’ helps repair circuitry in severe TBI
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)
