Recent Memory News from ScienceDaily:
- 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
- Brain connections mean some people lack visual imagery
- As novel sights become familiar, different brain rhythms, neurons take over
- Study finds novel evidence that dreams reflect multiple memories, anticipate future events
- Taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills
- First glimpse of brains retrieving mistaken memories observed
- 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
- Intermittent fasting in mice effective at promoting long term memory retention
- 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
- A new theory for what’s happening in the brain when something looks familiar
- New complexity of traveling brain waves in memory circuits
- Study of 70,000 individuals links dementia to smoking and cardiovascular disease
- New study reveals where memories of familiar places are stored in the brain
- Peptide could allow medical marijuana to relieve pain without side effects
- New finding suggests cognitive problems caused by repeat mild head hits could be treated
- Managing children’s weight, blood pressure and cholesterol protects brain function mid-life
- Alzheimer’s study: A Mediterranean diet might protect against memory loss and dementia
- People with familial longevity show better cognitive aging
- Hippocampal maps predict context-dependent behavior
- Study showing how the brain retrieves facts and may help people with memory problems
- Attention and working memory: Two sides of the same neural coin?
- New study finds false memories can be reversed
- Study shows stronger brain activity after writing on paper than on tablet or smartphone
- Riding the wave to memory-forming genetics
- Making decisions based on how we feel about memories, not accuracy
- Reflecting on your own capabilities boosts resilience
- Why odors trigger powerful memories
- A new theory for how memories are stored in the brain
Recent Brain Injury News from ScienceDaily:
- 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
- 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
- Obsessive compulsive disorder linked to increased ischemic stroke risk later in life
- Brain tumors caused by normal neuron activity in mice predisposed to such tumors
- Antioxidant protein inside the cell worsens inflammation outside
- Novel immunotherapy boosts long-term stroke recovery in mice
- Study solves mystery of how amyloid beta forms in brain nerve cells
- Alzheimer protein APP regulates learning and social behavior in the healthy brain
- An illuminating possibility for stroke treatment: Nano-photosynthesis
- Diagramming the brain with colorful connections
- New finding suggests cognitive problems caused by repeat mild head hits could be treated
- Damage to white matter is linked to worse cognitive outcomes after brain injury
- 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
- Controlled scar formation in the brain
- New genetic clues point to new treatments for ‘silent’ stroke
- DNA damage ‘hot spots’ discovered within neurons
- Leaky blood-brain barrier linked to brain tissue damage in brain aging disease
- Could birth control pills ease concussion symptoms in female athletes?
- Injectable porous scaffolds promote better, quicker healing after spinal cord injuries
- After a concussion: No more sitting in the dark?
- Two new genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease discovered
- Reactivating aging stem cells in the brain
- Promising biomarkers to diagnose mild traumatic brain injury
- Remyelinating drug could improve vision in patients with multiple sclerosis
- Turning on the switch for plasticity in the human brain
- Unlocking PTSD: New study reveals why trauma-focused psychotherapy treatment works
- Fine tuning first-responder immune cells may reduce TBI damage
- Study finds COVID-19 attack on brain, not lungs, triggers severe disease in mice
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)
