http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. People with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression can lose weight and keep it off through a modified lifestyle intervention program, a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded study reported online today in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-people-mental-illnesses-weight.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:30:02 EST news283096256 There's no question that our ability to remember informs our sense of self. Now research published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, provides new evidence that the relationship may also work the other way around: Invoking our sense of self can influence what we are able to remember. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-self-imagination-memory-healthy-memory-impaired-individuals.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:50:21 EST news271522110 Psychologists at the University of Toronto and the Georgia Institute of Technology – commonly known as Georgia Tech – have shown that an individual's inability to recognize once-familiar faces and objects may have as much to do with difficulty perceiving their distinct features as it does with the capacity to recall from memory. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-alzheimer-function-visual-clutter.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:43:29 EST news269181794 (Medical Xpress)—A new study from Georgia Tech and the University of Toronto suggests that memory impairments for people diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's disease may be due, in part, to problems in determining the differences between similar objects. The findings also support growing research indicating that a part of the brain once believed to support memory exclusively – the medial temporal lobe - also plays a role in object perception. The results are published in the October edition of Hippocampus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-visual-clutter-people-mild-cognitive.html Neuroscience Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:38:27 EST news268310297 There has been significant debate in policy circles about whether governments have over-reacted to ecstasy by issuing warnings against its use and making it illegal. In the UK, David Nutt said ecstasy was less dangerous than horseback riding, which led to him being fired as the government's chief drug advisor. Others have argued that ecstasy is dangerous if you use it a lot, but brief use is safe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-debate-ecstasy-evidence-memory-impairments.html Addiction Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:00:02 EST news262458068 In a study published June 25 in the Journal of Neuroscience, a collaborative team of researchers led by Linda J. Van Eldik, director of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, and D. Martin Watterson of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, present results showing that a new central nervous system drug compound can reduce Alzheimer's pathology in a mouse model of the disease. The drug, called MW-151, is a selective suppressor of brain inflammation and overproduction of proinflammatory molecules from glial cells. The drug can be taken by mouth and readily enters the brain. The new study tested the hypothesis that intervention with drugs like MW-151 could be effective as a preventive measure, when administered at an early stage before Alzheimer's pathology appears, as well as after disease symptoms have begun to appear. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-effect-early-drug-administration-alzheimer.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:10:42 EST news262368632 Scientists now have a better understanding of how precise memories are formed thanks to research led by Prof. Jean-Claude Lacaille of the University of Montreal's Department of Physiology. "In terms of human applications, these findings could help us to better understand memory impairments in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease," Lacaille said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-neuro-sharpen-memories.html Neuroscience Tue, 01 May 2012 17:20:01 EST news255107778 Alcohol's effects on memory range from mild deficits to alcohol-induced blackouts. That said, very little research has been carried out on memory impairments among individuals who have experienced alcohol-induced blackouts. A new study of neural activation during a contextual-memory task among individuals with and without a history of alcohol-induced fragmentary blackouts demonstrates individual differences in how alcohol impacts memory. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-people-susceptible-alcohol-induced-fragmentary-blackouts.html Addiction Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:00:05 EST news251033239 Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both remember new memories while also maintaining older ones. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-memory-formation-triggered-stem-cell.html Neuroscience Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:56:36 EST news249224191