News tagged with emotional memory


It's not your imagination: Memory gets muddled at menopause

Don't doubt it when a woman harried by hot flashes says she's having a hard time remembering things. A new study published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), helps confirm with o ...

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Concerns that methadone children may have problems at school

Children prenatally exposed to methadone or Subutex (buprenorphine) are prone to developing cognitive difficulties. According to one researcher, these children still need close follow-up after they begin ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 16, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study reveals potential target to better treat, cure anxiety disorders

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have, for the first time, identified a specific group of cells in the brainstem whose activation during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is critical for the regulation ...

Neuroscience created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain activity predicts response to scopolamine

(HealthDay)—The neural response in the visual cortex while processing emotional information can predict which patients with major depressive disorder will respond to scopolamine, according to a study published ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers uncover previously unknown mechanism of memory formation

(Medical Xpress)—It takes a lot to make a memory. New proteins have to be synthesized, neuron structures altered. While some of these memory-building mechanisms are known, many are not. Some recent studies have indicated ...

Neuroscience created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

REM sleep enhances emotional memories, study shows

(Medical Xpress)—Witnessing a car wreck or encountering a poisonous snake are scenes that become etched in our memories.

Neuroscience created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Emotion in voices helps capture the listener's attention, but in the long run the words are not remembered as accurately

Does the emotion in our voice have a lasting effect? According to Annett Schirmer and colleagues from the National University of Singapore, emotion helps us recognize words quicker and more accurately straight away. In the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study to assess impact of sleep on cognitive and emotional well-being

Over the past decade, scientists have learned that sleep is one of the best memory aids available, but Mark Gluck wants to take that research further. The Rutgers professor, an expert in cognitive and computational ...

Medical research created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Understanding the chemical mechanism behind antidepressants

(Medical Xpress)—Millions of Americans take antidepressants such as Prozac, Effexor, and Paxil, but the explanations for how they work never satisfied René Hen, a professor of psychiatry, neuroscience ...

Neuroscience created Sep 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists erase fear from the brain

Newly formed emotional memories can be erased from the human brain. This is shown by researchers from Uppsala University in a new study now being published by the academic journal Science. The findings may represent a brea ...

Neuroscience created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Psychologists link emotion to vividness of perception and creation of vivid memories

Have you ever wondered why you can remember things from long ago as if they happened yesterday, yet sometimes can't recall what you ate for dinner last night? According to a new study led by psychologists ...

Neuroscience created Aug 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Giving phobias a rest: Research suggests key role for sleep in treating anxiety, stress

Exposure therapy for irrational fear of spiders seems to be more effective if it is followed by sleep, according to a recent study in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. The results have implications for treatme ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Better management of traumatic brain injury

New treatments to lessen the severity of the more than 21,000 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) cases that occur in Australia each year are on the horizon.

Neuroscience created Jul 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Suspicion resides in two regions of the brain

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus.

Neuroscience created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers find genetic link to PTSD

(Medical Xpress) -- A team of Swiss and German researchers has found that a certain gene allele can be linked to increased emotional memory retention and because of that appears to be a factor in people who suffer from post ...

Genetics created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report