Recent Memory News from ScienceDaily:
- 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
- Certain personality traits may affect risk of ‘pre-dementia’
- Like a treasure map, brain region emphasizes reward location
- Previously claimed memory boosting font ‘Sans Forgetica’ does not actually boost memory
- A child’s brain activity reveals their memory ability
- Brain’s ‘updating mechanisms’ may create false memories
- Family environment affects adolescent brain development
- Exercise improves memory, boosts blood flow to brain
- 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
- Lipid metabolism controls brain development
- Evidence that human brains replay our waking experiences while we sleep
- Extinguishing fearful memories depends on the flexibility of your DNA
- Alzheimer’s gene triggers early breakdowns in blood-brain barrier, predicting cognitive decline
- Molecular switch plays crucial role in learning from negative experiences
- Memory misfires help selfish maintain their self-image
- Scientists explore links between genetics, gut microbiome and memory
- How mistakes help us recognize things
- Adult astrocytes are key to learning and memory
- How hearing loss in old age affects the brain
- Heavy cost of excessive drinking on people’s decision making
- Discovery of a novel function for MAP2 in synaptic strengthening
- False memories of crime appear real when retold to others
- Babies retain even detailed events during a nap
- Students who listened to Beethoven during lecture — and in dreamland — did better on test
- Neuroscientists find memory cells that help us interpret new situations
- Stress thwarts our ability to plan ahead by disrupting how we use memory
- Lifestyle changes could delay memory problems in old age, depending on our genes
- Resolving inflammation: Could it prevent memory loss in Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s?
- Variety and consistency are essential to keep the mind healthy
- Memory games: Eating well to remember
- Masking the memory of fear: Treating anxiety disorders such as PTSD with an opioid
- Disease-causing repeats help human neurons function
- A good blood supply is good for memory
- How the brain’s immune system could be harnessed to improve memory
Recent Brain Injury News from ScienceDaily:
- 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
- Scientists show MRI predicts the efficacy of a stem cell therapy for brain injury
- Similar brain glitch found in slips of signing, speaking
- 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
- Brain discovery suggests source of lifelong behavioral issues
- Repairing stroke-damaged rat brains
- Compound in fruit peels halts damage and spurs neuronal repair in multiple sclerosis
- Scientists reveal brain tumors impact normally helpful cells
- Chilling concussed cells shows promise for full recovery
- Analyzing patients shortly after stroke can help link brain regions to speech functions
- Stroke: When the system fails for the second time
- Inflammation in the brain linked to several forms of dementia
- Scientists can see the bias in your brain
- Resolving inflammation: Could it prevent memory loss in Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s?
- Brain-doping produced by your own body
- How associative fear memory is formed in the brain
- To protect your brain, don’t be (too) kind!
- New sleep method strengthens brain’s ability to retain memories
- Can light therapy help improve mood in people with concussion?
- Protein critical for wound healing after spinal cord injury
- Two sides of a coin: Our own immune cells damage the integrity of the blood-brain barrier
- Early intervention following traumatic brain injury reduces epilepsy risk
- Surgeons successfully treat brain aneurysms using a robot
- Why Zika virus caused most harmful brain damage to Brazilian newborns
- Reducing dangerous swelling in traumatic brain injury
- Concussion risk in youth football
- Blue light triggers memory and emphatic fear in mice via a non-invasive approach
- Sticky situation inside blood vessels can worsen stroke damage
- Blue light can help heal mild traumatic brain injury
- Exosomes promote remarkable recovery in stroke
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)
