by University of York Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Older adults who play digital puzzle games have the same memory abilities as people in their 20s, a new study has shown. The study, from the University of York, also found that adults aged 60 and over who play digital puzzle games had a greater ability to ignore...
by Sylvie Pérez Lima and Jordi Perales Pons, The Conversation Credit: shutterstock. Shutterstock / fizkes Sometimes we remember things that we did not even know we had memorised and sometimes the opposite happens—we want to remember something that we know we’ve learned but are not able to recall it. Faced with an exam, students only ask...
Eve Bender November 28, 2022 Consumption of flavonols may preserve memory and cognition over time, new research suggests. Three specific components of flavonols in particular — kaempferol, myricetin, and quercetin — were associated with slower global cognitive decline. Dr Thomas Holland “It is never too early, or too late, to start making healthy lifestyle changes, especially when it comes...
by University of Sydney High-resolution image of the ‘wiring diagram’ of a human brain revealing connections to the hippocampus. Credit: Marshall Dalton/ University of Sydney The most detailed map ever made of the communication links between the hippocampus—the brain’s memory control center—and the rest of the brain has been created by Australian scientists. And it...
by New York University How the brain works in the perception of an image varies significantly from how it recalls one from memory. This illustration captures how brain activity spreads in perception, akin to ink spreading on stacked pieces of paper, and memory, in which the activity is more constant across multiple brain maps. Credit: Jonathan...
by University of Maryland School of Medicine PDE11A memory enzyme (green) in the brains of young (left) and old (right) mice. Credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine One of the most upsetting aspects of age-related memory decline is not being able to remember the face that accompanies the name of a person you just...
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scientists traced and studied neurons that connect the visual cortices in each hemisphere of the brain. Credit: Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan/MIT PIcower Institute A new MIT study finds that Alzheimer’s disease disrupts at least one form of visual memory by degrading a newly identified circuit that connects the vision processing centers of each...
Diana Kwon Different kinds of memory are controlled by different parts of the brain. Credit: BSIP/UIG/Getty People’s ability to remember fades with age — but one day, researchers might be able to use a simple, drug-free method to buck this trend. In a study published on 22 August in Nature Neuroscience1, Robert Reinhart, a cognitive neuroscientist...
by CNRS Mobility of glutamate receptors on the surface of a rat hippocampal neuron, measured by tracking individual molecules. Credit: © Benjamin Compans and Daniel Choquet / IINS / CNRS-Université de Bordeaux Neurons communicate with each other across synapses, areas of close contact where neurotransmitter molecules released from one neuron act on receptors embedded in the...
LA JOLLA—Researchers at the Salk Institute and colleagues have discovered the molecule in the brain responsible for associating good or bad feelings with a memory. Their discovery, published in Nature on July 20, 2022, paves the way for a better understanding of why some people are more likely to retain negative emotions than positive ones—as can occur...
