Sleep disorders
Disruption of sleep in children could hamper memory processes
Sleep disordered breathing can hamper memory processes in children, according to a new study.
Apr 15, 2015
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Neuroscience
A brain system that appears to compensate for autism, OCD, and dyslexia
Individuals with five neurodevelopmental disorders—autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, dyslexia, and Specific Language Impairment—appear to compensate for dysfunction by relying ...
Feb 12, 2015
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language
When it comes to learning languages, adults and children have different strengths. Adults excel at absorbing the vocabulary needed to navigate a grocery store or order food in a restaurant, but children have an uncanny ability ...
Jul 21, 2014
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Neuroscience
Sleep mechanism identified that plays role in emotional memory
(Medical Xpress)—Sleep researchers from University of California campuses in Riverside and San Diego have identified the sleep mechanism that enables the brain to consolidate emotional memory and found that a popular prescription ...
Jun 13, 2013
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Neuroscience
If you can remember it, you can remember it wrong
(Medical Xpress)—Native peoples in regions where cameras are uncommon sometimes react with caution when their picture is taken. The fear that something must have been stolen from them to create the photo is often inescapable. ...
Neuroscience
Neural interaction in periods of silence
German neurophysiologists have developed a new method to study widespread networks of neurons responsible for our memory.
Nov 21, 2012
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Neuroscience
Researchers create short-term memories in-vitro
Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, Professor of Neurosciences and Physiology/Biophysics, and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ...
Sep 10, 2012
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Neuroscience
Suspicion resides in two regions of the brain
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus.
May 17, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Learning best when you rest: Sleeping after processing new info most effective, new study shows
Nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is most beneficial for recall.
Mar 23, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How do I remember that I know you know that I know?
(PhysOrg.com) -- “I’ll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time,” says the character Aaron in the 1987 movie Broadcast News. He and the woman he’s talking to have a lot of common ground, ...
Aug 24, 2011
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