Neuroscience
Study underscores the gut-brain connection and shows hunger hormone impacts memory
A hormone that influences when and how frequently animals eat also appears to affect memory, USC scientists have found.
Oct 13, 2020
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News tagged with episodic memory
Psychology & Psychiatry
The role of the hippocampus in how humans mentally travel in time and space
Human and animal brains can represent events in time and space in fascinating ways, for instance, by accessing a chronology of events that happened in the past via stimuli perceived by the senses. In the human brain, spatial ...
Cardiology
Maintaining heart health may protect against cognitive decline
People with a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease have increased cognitive decline, including an increase in typical markers of Alzheimer's disease, suggesting that monitoring and controlling for heart disease ...
May 18, 2020
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Neuroscience
Early life experiences biologically and functionally mature the brain, research shows
Experiences early in life have an impact on the brain's biological and functional development, shows a new study by a team of neuroscientists. Its findings, which centered on changes in mice and rats, reveal how learning ...
Feb 3, 2020
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Diabetes
Severe hypoglycemia in seniors with T1DM may worsen cognition
(HealthDay)—Both recent severe hypoglycemia (SH) and lifetime SH are associated with worse cognition among older adults with type 1 diabetes, according to a study published online Dec. 27 in Diabetes Care.
Jan 4, 2020
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Neuroscience
Alzheimer's memory discovery reveals function of brain area affected at onset
Scientists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh have discovered the functions of the area of the brain in which Alzheimer's begins, offering hope for the development of future treatments.
Dec 13, 2019
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Neuroscience
Research sheds new light on how the brain forms and recalls memories
Neuroscientists at the University of Birmingham have proved how different parts of the human brain work together to create and retrieve episodic memory.
Oct 10, 2019
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Neuroscience
Discovery of neuronal ensemble activities orchestrated to represent one memory
The brain stores memories through a neuronal ensemble, termed engram cells. A unique system was established to transfer neuronal population activity into light with discrimination between engram and non-engram cells using ...
Sep 5, 2019
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Memory loss, dementia an understudied yet widespread phenomenon among Chinese Americans
The U.S. Chinese population is growing—and graying—rapidly! From 2000 to 2010, the Chinese American population aged 65 and over grew at a rate four times higher than the overall U.S. older adult population. As of 2016, ...
Aug 26, 2019
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Neuroscience
The secret of autobiographical memory is in assembly of cells
Of all forms of memory, episodic memory is the most intimate. We recall the sequences of events that happen to us—a marriage, a visit to a foreign country, a personal achievement—in great autobiographical detail. But ...
Jun 26, 2019
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