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• Acute stress leaves its mark on hippocampal DNA

  
  Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info — Authority: 138
  Brett Norman - Rockefeller University In trying to explain psychiatric disorders, genes simply cannot tell the whole story. The real answers are in the interaction of genes and the environment. Post-traumatic stress disorder requires some trauma, for instance, and people, for the most part, arent born depressed. ...
  5 days ago

• How does brain zero in on single bit of information?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 23 (IANS) How does the brain zero in on a single bit of information, out of the tens of thousands that it is bombarded with daily? Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have discovered a mechanism that the brain uses to filter out distracting thoughts to focus on [...]
  6 days ago

• Why Smells From Childhood Evoke Such Strong Memories

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 157
  Why does the hint of certain smells instantly transport you back to childhood? It may be because the first smell you associate with an object is given privileged status in the brain Yaara Yeshurun and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, showed volunteers an object such as a chair or ...
  1 week ago

• New neurons erase old memories to make new ones (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): Newborn neurons in the brain make room for new memories by moving out the old ones, concludes a new mice study.The study provides some of the first evidence that new neurons sprouted in the hippocampus (a brain region associated with learning and memory) cause the decay of short-term fear ...
  2 weeks ago

• ScienceNow - New Neurons Make Room for New Memories

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 439
  Very cool - the brain is far more resilient than we ever thought it was. New Neurons Make Room for New Memories Enlarge Image Out with the old. New neurons in the hippocampus (pink label, top panel) may help clear out old memory traces, according to research with rodents with impaired ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Scents Evoke Memories

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 551
  Have you ever noticed that some smells bring back strong memories? Now, researchers using functional brain imaging techniques have uncovered the scientific basis of memory aromas. Weizmann Institute scientists posited that the key might not necessarily lie in childhood, but rather in the first time a smell is ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Thoughts on Memory

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 551
  Traditionally, scientists have believed long-term and short-term memories were formed by different processes within the brain. This theory is now being challenged by researchers from University College London. Historically, the position of a different process for memories was based on observation of patients with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Long and short-term memory theory challenged

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, November 10 (ANI): A new study has challenged the long-held theory of human brain using different mechanisms for forming long-term and short-term memories.Neuroscientists from UCL assessed patients with amnesia for the research.In cases of amnesia, patients are unable to form long-lasting memories due to ...
  2 weeks ago

• How some aromas are bound up in our memories

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Some aromas get etched into our memories since childhood, and now researchers at Weizmann Institute have found the scientific basis of this connection.According to graduate student Yaara Yeshurun, along with Profs. Noam Sobel and Yadin Dudai of the Institute’s Neurobiology Department, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anxiety

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Anxiety can be defined as emotions which are typically negative in nature. It will often consist of fear and worry, and some organisms may even experience physical signs such as nausea or chest pains. Anxiety is a complex emotion, and is composed of a number of different elments. Some of these elements are somatic or ...
  3 weeks ago

• If it doesnt hurt, youre not doing it right...

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  The old adage No Pain, No Gain appears intuitive when it comes to developing physical prowess. I only started to see gains in the gym after pushing myself to the point where Id wake up thinking Id be crippled for the rest of my life. Is the same true for cognitive improvements too? Im not normally prone to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Am I Alone On This?

  
  Veggiemacabre — Authority: 100
  I would love to see the Heenes have a reality show. True they exploited their kids in a ridiculous plot that had the world, me included, praying the kid would be okay but if you go to any child beauty pageant or talent agency you’ll see some real scary parents. I’m just saying, I would change my schedule around ...
  4 weeks ago

• Fighting Sleep, Penn Researchers Reverse the Cognitive Impairment Caused By Sleep Deprivation: University of Pennsylvania

  
  My Mind, Body & Health — Authority: 138
  A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. Just as important, the team believes that the cognitive deficits caused by sleep deprivation, such as an ...
  4 weeks ago

• Understanding How Antidepressant Meds Work

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 551
  A new research effort may overturn some traditional beliefs on depression. Scientists from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine believe the reason a majority of individuals fail to obtain relief is that the drugs are designed to treat the wrong target. They say the medications are like arrows ...
  4 weeks ago

• Singapore nightlife revealed

  
  Pulau Hantu — Authority: 110
  Thought this city was just about a 24hr buzz above water? Think again! Once the sun goes over the horizon, a bell is sounded for all sorts of bizarre critters to come out and roam the reef! It’s also a great time to get some photos of the fish because they were all asleep. Some fish, however, don’t sleep, and it ...
  5 weeks ago

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