MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
...al learning in everyday settings. The ability to remember factual information - who, what, where, when - emerges gradually during childhood, and plays a critical role in education. The brain systems underlying it have been extensively studied in adults, but until now little was known about how they mature d...Adult survivors of childhood leukemia exercise less, worsening high risk for obesity and illness
...men in the general population. Its important to remember that these patients are not couch potatoes or lazy, said Dr. Oeffinger. Our findings suggest that CRT has fundamentally altered something in the central nervous system thats leading to a decrease in levels of physical activity. Because exercise re...Pediatric ritalin use may affect developing brain, new study suggests
...either benefit or harm to humans. "One thing to remember is that these young animals had normal, healthy brains," she says. "In ADHD-affected brains -- where the neurochemistry is already somewhat awry or the brain might be developing too fast -- these changes might help 'reset' that balance in a healthy w...Research study describes the role part of the brain plays in memory
...ing an instrument. Declarative memory allows us to remember things such as specific moments of our lives, name...hoose to eat the same exact food. Animals learn to remember what their congeners eat and, in that way, lower the risk of eating new foods that could be harmful ...Generalized reciprocity in rats
... interact repeatedly with the same individuals and remember past interactions. By comparison, generalized reciprocity makes no such cognitive assumptions. In generalized reciprocity, animals are more likely to help a partner if they have been helped in the past, regardless of the past helper's identity. For e...First baby is born after oocytes were matured in the lab and frozen
... ovarian stimulation, he said. However, we have to remember that these are only preliminary results from a small number of patients who were not cancer patients themselves. As for all methods for fertility preservation, they should be looked at as preliminary and experimental. We need to inform the patients a...Turn-ons and turn-offs for neurons
...ists of billions of nerve cells enabling to learn, remember and reason. Every time we think and experience, touch, smell or fear, millions of neurons in our brain becomes active. These nerve cells communicate with each other by chemical and electrical impulses to compute incoming sensory information and integ...Enhanced environment restores memory in mice with neurodegeneration
...hment improved the p25-induced animals' ability to remember that conditioning weeks after training. They found that the enriched animals showed marked recovery of the long-term memory when compared to mice that did not live in a stimuli-rich environment. "This recovery of long-term memory was really the mos...Landmark study highlights complex genetic risk factors behind type 2 diabetes
...welcomes these exciting findings. Its important to remember that Type 2 diabetes is a genetic condition and not just associated with lifestyle factors. This discovery will help us get closer to unravelling the genetics of the condition. If we can understand more about the genetics we can make real progress to...Mutation improves memory, may lead to memory-enhancing pill
...hosphorylation reaction have a superior ability to remember new things under certain training conditions. Those results led us to suspect that decreasing the phosphorylation of eIF2a enhanced memory storage, Costa-Mattioli said. In an effort to validate their earlier findings, the researchers have now gen...UC Davis study finds high arsenic levels in herbal kelp supplements
... memorybecame so impaired that she could no longer remember her home address. Shealso reported having a rash, nausea and vomiting, which made it verydifficult to work and forced her to leave a full-time job. The womanactually increased her dosage of kelp from two to four pills a day afterher doctors still cou...... to carry your bags home from the supermarket just remember that this could, in fact, be the reason you are able to walk upright on two legs at all! How we have evolved to walk on two legs remains a fundamental but, as yet, unresolved question for scientists. A popular explanation is that it is our ability to......ved that the brain selects incoming information to remember useful things. Distracting information is refused ...action. Mango Veling asked study subjects to remember words that were strongly associated with each other. For example, fruit-mango, fruit-peach, animal-g...Penn study finds inhaled anesthetics accelerate the appearance of brain plaque in animals
...t been demonstrated in humans". It is important to remember that this effect is likely to be subtle, especially with brief surgical procedures, so the risk of not having needed surgery may exceed any potential risk from this still unproven effect. But this latest study adds a little urgency to the effort to f...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
...n random. The amoeba called Dictyostelium seems to remember its previous steps -- which it performs by pumping itself into protuberances known as pseudopods - and to explore new grounds, increasing its chances of finding food. It is unclear how the microorganism remembers its previous steps, but one hypothesi...Individuals and populations differ in gene activity levels, not just genes
...lation or biological "race." "It's important to remember that differences between population groups are much less abundant than those you would see if you just compared two randomly selected individuals," said Storey. "This means that populations have a lot more similarities than differences when it comes ...Birds found to plan for the future
...n that scrub-jays have a concept of the past. They remember what they have cached where and how long ago, and they also keep track of which particular bird was watching when they cached so that they can protect their caches accordingly from being stolen by observant thieves. The research, funded by the Biot...Problem forgetting may be a natural mechanism gone awry
...pting of memory, Foster said. After all, we do not remember everything in perfect detail and we would not want to. This same mechanism probably is used to clear the brain circuits and make them ready to be used the next day. However, this mechanism in excess may lead to rapid forgetting as seen during brain a...We all remember a time when we were paralyzed in the face of a tough decision. For animals in the natural world, making the right choice can mean the difference between life and death. When rats and other animals choose the thing that leads to a "reward," such as...Beyond nature vs. nurture: Williams syndrome across cultures
...al behavior on social situations, their ability to remember names and faces, their eagerness to please other people, their tendency to empathize with others' emotional states, and the tendency for other people to approach their child. Despite the differences in upbringing, in both countries children with W...