Neuroscience
New learning and memory neurons uncovered
(Medical Xpress)—A University of Queensland study has identified precisely when new neurons become important for learning.
Apr 11, 2013
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News tagged with memory formation
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Researchers identify 'switch' for long-term memory
Neurobiologists at Heidelberg University have identified calcium in the cell nucleus to be a cellular "switch" responsible for the formation of long-term memory. Using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model, the ...
Jul 9, 2013
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Neuroscience
Study seeks connections between sleep and memory consolidation in the cortex
(Medical Xpress)—Neurologists have known that an intrinsic connection exists between the consolidation of memory and neural activity during sleep. Indeed, over the course of the last century, researchers have increasingly ...
Neuroscience
'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 ...
Aug 24, 2011
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Novel storage mechanism allows command, control of memory
(Medical Xpress)—Introductions at a party seemingly go in one ear and out the other. However, if you meet someone two or three times during the party, you are more likely to remember his or her name. Your brain has taken ...
Mar 5, 2013
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How the brain builds place memories
Tübingen neuroscientists have succeeded in activating dormant memory cells in rats. Using weak electrical impulses targeted at previously inactive cells in the hippocampus, the researchers induced the cells to recognize ...
Feb 5, 2016
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Neuroscience
Could poor sleep contribute to symptoms of schizophrenia?
Neuroscientists studying the link between poor sleep and schizophrenia have found that irregular sleep patterns and desynchronised brain activity during sleep could trigger some of the disease's symptoms. The findings, published ...
Nov 14, 2012
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Medical research
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 — ...
Apr 14, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain-imaging study links cannabinoid receptors to post-traumatic stress disorder
In a first-of-its-kind effort to illuminate the biochemical impact of trauma, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a connection between the quantity of cannabinoid receptors in the human brain, known ...
May 14, 2013
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Neuroscience
Honeybee memories: Another piece of the Alzheimer's puzzle?
A breakdown of memory processes in humans can lead to conditions such as Alzheimer's and dementia. By looking at the simpler brain of a honeybee, new research published in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, moves us a step ...
Dec 8, 2016
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