by University College London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainPeople at risk of Alzheimer’s disease have impaired spatial navigation prior to problems with other cognitive functions, including memory, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, used virtual reality to test the spatial navigation of 100 asymptomatic midlife adults, aged 43-66,...
by Chinese Academy of Sciences (A) Object-location memory task; (B) Schematic depiction of firing fields for one grid cell (purple circle). More fields are crossed during six moving directions which are aligned with the grid (purple), translating to stronger brain activity. (C) Depiction of all electrode contacts in mPFC and EC (black circles) relative to...
by Osaka City University The subiculum in the rat brain is routing three types of spatial information. Credit: Takuma Kitanishi The hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with information associated with spatial navigation and memory. For example, you are driving and despite the changing environment of different cars going at varying speeds,...
About one-third of patients who have suffered a stroke end up with impaired vision, losing up to half of their visual field. This partial blindness was long considered irreversible, but recent studies have shown that vision training after optic nerve and brain damage can restore or improve vision. A new study published in the journal...
