News tagged with autobiographical memory


Researchers look at therapeutic benefits of ketamine

The largest trial into the use of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in the UK in more than 30 years will look into how the use of the Class C drug ketamine might reduce the side effects of ECT for those being treated for severe ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gone but not forgotten: Yearning for lost loved ones linked to altered thinking about the future

People suffering from complicated grief may have difficulty recalling specific events from their past or imagining specific events in the future, but not when those events involve the partner they lost, according to a new ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 18, 2013 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Memory vs. Math: Same brain areas show inverse responses to recall and arithmetic

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists have historically relied on neuroimaging – but not electrophysiological – data when studying the human default mode network (DMN), a group of brain regions with lower activi ...

Neuroscience created Sep 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Brains are different in people with highly superior autobiographical memory

UC Irvine scientists have discovered intriguing differences in the brains and mental processes of an extraordinary group of people who can effortlessly recall every moment of their lives since about age 10.

Neuroscience created Jul 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Remembering to forget

(Medical Xpress) -- New research suggests that it is possible to suppress emotional autobiographical memories.  The study published this month by psychologists at the University of St Andrews reveals that individuals ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jun 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Personality, habits of thought and gender influence how we remember

We all have them – positive memories of personal events that are a delight to recall, and painful recollections that we would rather forget. A new study reveals that what we do with our emotional memories ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Neuroscience created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report