Neuroscience
When memories age
To the brain, it makes a great difference whether we remember experiences from long ago, or if we recollect recent events. RUB neuroscientists have shown that distinct brain networks are involved.
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Circuit for experience-informed decision-making ID'd in rats
How is the brain able to use past experiences to guide decision-making? A few years ago, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health discovered in rats that awake mental replay of past experiences is critical ...
Mar 11, 2016
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Neuroscience
Aggression causes new nerve cells to be generated in the brain
A group of neurobiologists from Russia and the USA, including Dmitry Smagin, Tatyana Michurina, and Grigori Enikolopov from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), have proven experimentally that aggression has ...
Feb 5, 2016
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How obesity makes memory go bad
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are probing how obesity makes memory goes bad, and the underlying molecular mechanism that drives this decline.
Jan 29, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Stress inhibits spatial perception
Neuroscientists of Collaborative Research Centre 874 at the Ruhr University Bochum have investigated the effects of stress on the perception of scenes and faces. In a behavioural study, they compared the results of stressed ...
Jan 28, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Minecraft test shows beer bad for young brain
An experiment using the popular video game Minecraft has shown that teens who drink too much may be in for some serious consequences in the not-too-distant future.
Jan 25, 2016
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Neuroscience
New studies examine cellular diversity in the hippocampus
Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have uncovered unexpected diversity within a single, canonical cell type of the mammalian brain. Their analysis of cells called CA1 pyramidal neurons ...
Jan 18, 2016
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Loss of cells in brain's memory center linked to schizophrenia
Scientists at Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), and the Université Paris Descartes have found that deficits in social memory—a crucial ...
Jan 6, 2016
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Brain's hippocampus is essential structure for all aspects of recognition memory
The hippocampus, a brain structure known to play a role in memory and spatial navigation, is essential to one's ability to recognize previously encountered events, objects, or people - a phenomenon known as recognition memory ...
Nov 3, 2015
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Underlying processes of working memory are more complex than previously thought
In order to retain a piece of information for a short time, working memory is required. The underlying processes are considerably more complex than hitherto assumed, as researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Bonn ...
Oct 30, 2015
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