News tagged with memory formation
Related topics: memory , hippocampus , brain , neurons , brain regions
Memory formation triggered by stem cell development
Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both remember new memories while also maintaining older ones.
Neuroscience
Feb 23, 2012 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Neuroscientists identify a master controller of memory
When you experience a new event, your brain encodes a memory of it by altering the connections between neurons. This requires turning on many genes in those neurons. Now, MIT neuroscientists have identified ...
Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2011 |
5 / 5 (17) |
5
|
Widespread brain atrophy detected in Parkinson's disease with newly developed structural pattern
Atrophy in the hippocampus, the region of the brain known for memory formation and storage, is evident in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with cognitive impairment, including early decline known as mild cognitive impairment ...
Neuroscience
Dec 12, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
|
Nerve protein tomosyn linked to learning and memory
Can the nerve signaling inhibitor tomosyn help retain long-term memory? A new study by two University of Illinois at Chicago biologists points to the link.
Medical research
Oct 31, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
|
Everest expedition suggests nitric oxide benefits for intensive care patients
The latest results from an expedition to Mount Everest that looked at the body's response to low oxygen levels suggest that drugs or procedures that promote the body's production of a chemical compound called nitric oxide ...
Medical research
Oct 06, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
|
Zinc's role in the brain: Research gives insight into 50-year-old mystery
Zinc plays a critical role in regulating how neurons communicate with one another, and could affect how memories form and how we learn. The new research, in the current issue of Neuron, was authored by Xiao-an Zhang, now a ...
Neuroscience
Oct 05, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
|
Cancer protein's surprising role as memory regulator
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have found that a common cancer protein leads a second, totally different life in normal adult brain cells: It helps regulates memory formation and may ...
Medical research
Sep 22, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
|
'Time cells' bridge the gap in memories of event sequences
The hippocampus is a brain structure that plays a major role in the process of memory formation. It is not entirely clear how the hippocampus manages to string together events that are part of the same experience but are ...
Neuroscience
Aug 24, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
|
Experience puts the personal stamp on a place in memory
Seeing and exploring both are necessary for stability in a person's episodic memory when taking in a new experience, say University of Oregon researchers.
Neuroscience
Aug 22, 2011 |
not rated yet |
1
|
The biology behind alcohol-induced blackouts
(Medical Xpress) -- A person who drinks too much alcohol may be able to perform complicated tasks, such as dancing, carrying on a conversation or even driving a car, but later have no memory of those escapades. ...
Neuroscience
Jul 07, 2011 |
5 / 5 (4) |
1
|
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.
Health
Jun 30, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
|
Brain cell networks recreated with new view of activity behind memory formation
University of Pittsburgh researchers have reproduced the brain's complex electrical impulses onto models made of living brain cells that provide an unprecedented view of the neuron activity behind memory formation.
Medical research
May 25, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
1
|
Scientists discover 'thunder' protein that regulates memory formation
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered in mice a molecular wrecking ball that powers the demolition phase of a cycle that occurs at synapses — those specialized connections between nerve cells in the brain — ...
Medical research
Apr 14, 2011 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Scientists identify mechanism of long-term memory
Using advanced imaging technology, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a change in chemical influx into a specific set of neurons in the common fruit fly that is fundamental ...
Neuroscience
Apr 13, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
