Neuroscience

Study yields new insight on how memory works

Two Veterans Affairs researchers have explored how memory is tied to the hippocampus, with findings that will expand scientists' understanding of how memory works.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Breathing memory depends heavily on time of day for hypoxia: Study

Neurochemical mechanisms that enable breathing memory—a form of neuroplasticity (the ability of the nervous system to change its activity in response to injuries) known as phrenic long-term facilitation—are very dependent ...

Neuroscience

Seizures may increase dementia risk for young stroke survivors

Young stroke patients who have a seizure following their diagnosis are two and a half times more likely to develop dementia than patients who don't experience seizures, according to a new study by Penn State College of Medicine ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Who needs stress? We all do. Here's why

If you could do something to decrease your risk of memory failure, to increase your self-confidence, to be a better public speaker, to improve your brain, to help you deal with back pain, to bust out of your comfort zone, ...

Cardiology

Memory impairment prevalent in elderly with heart failure

(HealthDay)—For older adults with chronic heart failure, memory impairment is common, with impairment correlating positively with heart failure severity, according to a study published in the April 1 issue of The American ...

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