News tagged with memory problems

Related topics: dementia , memory , mild cognitive impairment , alzheimer s disease , cognitive decline




Pot use-low IQ link challenged in study

(HealthDay)—A new analysis challenges previous research that suggested teens put their long-term brainpower in danger when they smoke marijuana heavily.

Health created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Sleep loss precedes Alzheimer's symptoms

Sleep is disrupted in people who likely have early Alzheimer's disease but do not yet have the memory loss or other cognitive problems characteristic of full-blown disease, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain waves encode rules for behavior

One of the biggest puzzles in neuroscience is how our brains encode thoughts, such as perceptions and memories, at the cellular level. Some evidence suggests that ensembles of neurons represent each unique piece of information, ...

Neuroscience created Nov 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study shows early cognitive problems among those who eventually get Alzheimer's

People who study or treat Alzheimer's disease and its earliest clinical stage, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), have focused attention on the obvious short-term memory problems. But a new study suggests that people on the ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Dec 28, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Air pollution linked to learning and memory problems, depression

Long-term exposure to air pollution can lead to physical changes in the brain, as well as learning and memory problems and even depression, new research in mice suggests.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Finding unseen damage of traumatic brain injury

The soldier on the fringes of an explosion. The survivor of a car wreck. The football player who took yet another skull-rattling hit. Too often, only time can tell when a traumatic brain injury will leave ...

Neuroscience created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Experimental compound improves memory in mice with multiple sclerosis

Johns Hopkins researchers report the successful use of a form of MRI to identify what appears to be a key biochemical marker for cognitive impairment in the brains of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In follow-up experiments ...

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

Study shows old adage 'sleep on it' is true - but only if it's a really difficult problem

A new study from Lancaster University has found that sleeping on a problem really can help people to find a solution.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Trouble sleeping? It may affect your memory later on

The amount and quality of sleep you get at night may affect your memory later in life, according to research that was released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New ...

Neuroscience created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Epigenetic culprit in Alzheimer's memory decline

In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, memory problems stem from an overactive enzyme that shuts off genes related to neuron communication, a new study says.

Medical research created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neuroscientists find Broca's area is really two subunits, each with its own function

A century and a half ago, French physician Pierre Paul Broca found that patients with damage to part of the brain's frontal lobe were unable to speak more than a few words. Later dubbed Broca's area, this ...

Neuroscience created Oct 16, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Studies: Memory declines faster in years closest to death

Two new studies published in the April 4 online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggest that a person's memory declines at a faster rate in the last two-and-a-half years of lif ...

Neuroscience created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify promising treatments for chronic fatigue

(Medical Xpress)—Two treatments most likely to lead to recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have been identified by UK researchers.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Could a common blood pressure drug slow down the progression of Alzheimer's?

A ground-breaking trial that hopes to discover if a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure could slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) will begin shortly.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research explores common visual error of 'boundary extension'

(Medical Xpress) -- Helene Intraub, professor of psychology at the University of Delaware, and then-undergraduate researcher Mike Richardson first published their paper on the phenomenon of "boundary extension" ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast