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• How Scents Evoke Memories

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 570
  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 ...
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• New Thoughts on Memory

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 570
  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 ...
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• Long and short-term memory theory challenged

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  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 ...
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• How some aromas are bound up in our memories

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• If it doesnt hurt, youre not doing it right...

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  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 ...
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• Am I Alone On This?

  
  Veggiemacabre — Authority: 110
  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 ...
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• Fighting Sleep, Penn Researchers Reverse the Cognitive Impairment Caused By Sleep Deprivation: University of Pennsylvania

  
  My Mind, Body & Health — Authority: 154
  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 ...
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• Understanding How Antidepressant Meds Work

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 570
  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 ...
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• Singapore nightlife revealed

  
  Pulau Hantu — Authority: 114
  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 ...
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• HippoCampus

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 124
  What it is: HippoCampus is a website with incredible vision.  The goal is to provide high-quality multimedia content on general subjects to high school and college students free of charge.  Subjects on HippoCampus include algebra, American government, biology, calculus, environmental science, physics, ...
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• Lack of Sleep Leads to Poor Memory

  
  Nerdy Science Blog — Authority: 120
  Neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Glasgow and University of Toronto found that lack of sleep cause people to be forgetful. The neuroscientists study mice and humans and found that sleep deprivation disrupts a specific molecule in the brain’s memory circuitry (hippocampus), which ...
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• Drug combats sleep-deprived memory loss

  
  Just A Theory — Authority: 464
  It has long been known that sleep deprivation affects your ability to remember things long term. Yet until now the exact mechanism causing these misplaced memories has been unclear. The problem had been that the relationship between sleep deprivation and the brain is multi-faceted; it was hard to see the wood from ...
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• High protein diet ’shrinks the brain’, finds Alzheimer’s study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct 21 (ANI): Scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in mice found that a high protein diet led them to develop smaller brains.The research team from the US, Canada and the UK were focusing on triggers for brain plaque formation and monitored the effects of four different food regimes on rodents ...
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• New Treatment for Depression to be Presented at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Within the next few weeks, the FDA is expected to issue its final approval of a medical breakthrough treatment for chronic or treatment-resistant depression. This new therapy will be presented at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting in Atlanta from May 21st-May 25th. The Annual Meeting is the ...
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• Diabetes: Hypoglycemia Doesn’t Impair Cognition In Children With Type 1 Diabetes

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Under results of a new study, hypoglycemia, which is a drop in levels of blood sugar, and is severe enough to cause seizures or coma in young children with type 1 diabetes (those who develop the disease very early in life) does not appear to result in impairments in mental ability or behavior.According to experts [...]
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• Mouse Runs on Trackball Through Virtual Maze

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  ( YouTube Link ) Princeton neuroscientist David Tank wanted to study individual neurons in a mouse’s hippocamus as it moves. But the movement of the mouse’s body prevented accurate readings. So he placed the mouse on a giant trackball and let it run through a virtual maze from the video game Quake 2 ...
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• Playing Quake with a Real Mouse

  
  Brain Windows — Authority: 98
  Most people play Quake with a computer mouse, but researchers in David Tank’s lab at Princeton have done it with a living mouse, AND they are recording the intracellular activity of individual neurons of the mouse during the gaming session. As reported in Intracellular dynamics of hippocampal place cells during ...
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• New Findings About Brain Proteins Suggest Possible Way To Fight Alzheimers (part 2)

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 424
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting activities ScienceDaily Dr. Herz said the study is especially important because this mechanism involves another ...
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• Birds in captivity lose hippocampal mass

  
  Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info — Authority: 138
  PhysOrg.com — Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study. Caged birds may still sing, but being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new ...
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