Tag: memory
Unless we spot changes, most life experiences are fabricated from memories
We may not be able to change recent events in our lives, but how well we remember them plays a key role in how...
What happened when? How the brain stores memories by time
Before I left the house this morning, I let the cat out and started the dishwasher. Or was that yesterday? Very often, our memories...
Caffeine enhances memory
For some, it's the tradition of steeping tealeaves to brew the perfect cup of tea. For others, it's the morning shuffle to a coffee...
Brief mental training sessions have lasting benefits for seniors’ cognition
Older adults who received as few as 10 sessions of mental (cognitive) training showed improvements in reasoning ability and speed-of-processing when compared with untrained...
Memories Are ‘Geotagged’ With Spatial Information, Researchers Find
Using a video game in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, a team of neuroscientists from the University...
Breakthrough discerns normal memory loss from disease
Cornell researchers have developed a reliable method to distinguish memory declines associated with healthy aging from the more-serious memory disorders years before obvious symptoms...
Choline intake improves memory and attention-holding capacity
An experimental study in rats has shown that consuming choline, a vitamin B group nutrient found in foodstuffs like eggs and chicken or beef...
Manipulating memory in the hippocampus
In the brain, cell-to-cell communication is dependent on neurotransmitters, chemicals that aid the transfer of information between neurons. Several proteins have the ability to modify...
Stem cell transplant restores memory, learning in mice
For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and remember. A...
Scientists reverse memory loss in animal brain cells
Neuroscientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have taken a major step in their efforts to help people with...
