Recent Memory News from ScienceDaily:
- Lifestyle changes could delay memory problems in old age, depending on our genes
- Researchers find key to keep working memory working
- Resolving inflammation: Could it prevent memory loss in Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s?
- How associative fear memory is formed in the brain
- How the historically misunderstood amyloid helps to store memories
- BIN1 deficit impairs brain cell communication, memory consolidation
- Scientists monitor brains replaying memories in real time
- Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates
- New sleep method strengthens brain’s ability to retain memories
- Alzheimer’s: Can an amino acid help restore memories?
- Early intervention following traumatic brain injury reduces epilepsy risk
- 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
- Long-term learning requires new nerve insulation
- Synchronization of neurons is critical for learning and forming memories
- Focus on context diminishes memory of negative events, researchers report
- Early life experiences biologically and functionally mature the brain
- Novel insight into chromosome 21 and its effect on Down syndrome
- Hot flashes impair memory performance
- With these neurons, extinguishing fear is its own reward
- Long-term memory performance depends upon gating system
- Environmental light triggers production of memory proteins in fruit flies
- Forgetfulness might depend on time of day
- Brain waves in mice change based on memory age
- Having a psychotic disorder may increase decline of some areas of cognition over adulthood
- The genetic signature of memory
- You create your own false information, study finds
- Between arousal and inhibition
- Researchers use machine learning tools to reveal how memories are coded in the brain
- Playing board games may help protect thinking skills in old age
- Virtual ‘moonwalk’ for science reveals distortions in spatial memory
- Research reveals no link between statins and memory loss
- New cell therapy improves memory and stops seizures following TBI
- Restoring protein homeostasis improves memory deficits in Down syndrome model
- Specific neurons that map memories now identified in the human brain
- Circuit responsible for building memories during sleep
- How to alter memories to protect consumers
- High-intensity exercise improves memory in seniors
- How will your thinking and memory change with age?
- Seizures in babies: UVA sheds light on why they have lifelong effects
- Coordinated brain activation supports spatial learning and decision-making
- Name that tune: Brain takes just 100 to 300 milliseconds to recognize familiar music
- Memory training builds upon strategy use
- New diagnostic criteria may enable earlier detection of cognitive impairment in women
- Computer model helps make sense of human memory
- Manipulating specific brain waves in sleep shifts balance between learning or forgetting a new skill
Recent Brain Injury News from ScienceDaily:
- 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
- ‘Resetting’ immune cells improves traumatic brain injury recovery in preclinical trials
- Vision rehab treatment effective for stroke and injury related blindness
- Surgeons successfully treat brain aneurysms using a robot
- Therapeutic cooling effectively targets site of brain injury
- Why Zika virus caused most harmful brain damage to Brazilian newborns
- B cells may travel to remote areas of the brain to improve stroke recovery
- Unique neuron computes like a compass
- Effect of coagulation factor fibrinogen on damaged brain
- Brain drowns in its own fluid after a stroke
- More than a knee injury: ACL tears cause harmful changes in our brain structure
- Researchers regrow damaged nerves with polymer and protein
- 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
- Brain pressure controls eye pressure, revealing new avenues for glaucoma treatment
- Protein associated with ovarian cancer exacerbates neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s
- Molecular switch for repairing central nervous system disorders
- ‘Census’ in the zebrafish’s brain
- Brain waves in mice change based on memory age
- Radiation breaks connections in the brain
- To the brain, straight from the vein: IV treatment for TBI
- Dementia study reveals how proteins interact to stop brain signals
- Play sports for a healthier brain
- Concussion alters how information is transmitted within the brain
- Concussion recovery not clear cut for children
- Concussions in high school athletes may be a risk factor for suicide
- Perception of touch in the brain
- MRI reveals brain damage in obese teens
- Multifunctional small brains
- Brain scans reveal how the human brain compensates when one hemisphere is removed
- New cell therapy improves memory and stops seizures following TBI
- Lithium can reverse radiation damage after brain tumor treatment
- How brain injury can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder
- Nerve cell protection free from side effects
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)
