News tagged with memory traces

Epigenetics: Neurons remember because they move genes in space

How do neurons store information about past events? In the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, a mechanism unknown previously of memory traces formation has ...

Neuroscience Mar 07, 2013 | not rated yet | 0

Neuroscientists pinpoint location of fear memory in amygdala

A rustle of undergrowth in the outback: it's a sound that might make an animal or person stop sharply and be still, in the anticipation of a predator. That "freezing" is part of the fear response, a reaction to a stimulus ...

Neuroscience Jan 28, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 2 |

Neural interaction in periods of silence

German neurophysiologists have developed a new method to study widespread networks of neurons responsible for our memory.

Neuroscience Nov 21, 2012 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1 |

Fighting phobias involves creation of 'competing' memories

Most people have a fear of something but for 1 in 10 people, fear can turn into a phobia. The most common phobias being a fear of spiders, snakes, heights, the dark, being in crowds or tight spaces, animals ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Oct 22, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The neurological basis for fear and memory

Fear conditioning using sound and taste aversion, as applied to mice, have revealed interesting information on the basis of memory allocation.

Neuroscience Jun 18, 2012 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists shed light on age-related memory loss and possible treatments

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that the loss of memory that comes with aging is not necessarily a permanent thing.

Neuroscience Apr 02, 2012 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 1 |

Neuron memory key to taming chronic pain

For some, the pain is so great that they can't even bear to have clothes touch their skin. For others, it means that every step is a deliberate and agonizing choice. Whether the pain is caused by arthritic joints, an injury ...

Neuroscience Feb 13, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Opioids erase memory traces of pain

A team of researchers at the MedUni Vienna's Department of Neurophysiology (Centre for Brain Research) has discovered a previously unknown effect of opioids: the study, which has now been published in Science and was led by ...

Neuroscience Jan 16, 2012 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

A better way to remember

Scientists and educators alike have long known that cramming is not an effective way to remember things. With their latest findings, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, studying eye ...

Neuroscience Jun 17, 2011 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

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 |