Psychology & Psychiatry
Smartphone training helps people with memory impairment regain independence
The treatment for moderate-to-severe memory impairment could one day include a prescription for a smartphone.
Feb 8, 2012
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News tagged with amnesia
Psychology & Psychiatry
Young woman with amnesia unable to hold a single face in short-term memory
A 22-year-old woman known as "HC" with amnesia since birth as a result of developing only half the normal volume of the hippocampus in her brain, has demonstrated to scientists that the ability to hold a single face or word ...
Nov 9, 2011
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Study shows 'mind-blowing sex' is a reality
(Medical Xpress) -- The term mind-blowing has been used to describe great sexual encounters for many generations, but for one 54-year-old woman, sex with her husband really was mind-blowing.
Neuroscience
Rare form of temporary amnesia highlights role of CA1 neurons in accessing memories
(Medical Xpress) -- German researchers working out of the Institute of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, University of Kiel, have found through the study of a rare form of temporary amnesia, that impairment ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
How do I remember that I know you know that I know?
(PhysOrg.com) -- “I’ll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time,” says the character Aaron in the 1987 movie Broadcast News. He and the woman he’s talking to have a lot of common ground, ...
Aug 24, 2011
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Health
Interrupted sleep takes toll on memory formation, study says
A new study seems to confirm what exhausted parents have long suspected but may have been too tired to articulate:
Jul 28, 2011
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Health
Drinking until you forget leads to injuries for college kids
"I don't remember how I got home from the party." This could be a text from last night to one hard-partying college student from another.
Jul 11, 2011
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Health
Drink-fueled memory blackouts among students predict future injury risk
The higher the number of drink fuelled memory blackouts a student experiences, the greater is his/her risk of sustaining a future injury while under the influence, reveals research published online in Injury Prevention.
Jun 30, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Infantile amnesia: Gauging children's earliest memories
The inability of individuals to remember the very earliest years of their lives, called infantile amnesia, has been studied for many years in adults, who seem to recall very little before ages 3 or 4. But children also experience ...
May 11, 2011
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