News tagged with memory traces


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 created Jan 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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 created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Neural interaction in periods of silence

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

Neuroscience created Nov 21, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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 created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 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 created Jun 18, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0