From the UC Santa Barbara press release via EurekAlert!: You pick up your cell phone and dial the new number of a friend. Ten numbers. One. Number. At. A. Time. Because you haven’t actually typed…
From the Society of Nuclear Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: An arsenal of Alzheimer’s research revealed at the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s 59th Annual Meeting indicates that beta-amyloid plaque in the brain not only is…
From the Stanford University School of Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: A team led by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine has found that the most common genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease…
From the IOS Press BV press release via AlphaGalileo: Those cups of coffee that you drink every day to keep alert appear to have an extra perk – especially if you’re an older adult. A…
From the Vanderbilt University press release via Newswise: The molecular structure of a protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease – and the surprising discovery that it binds cholesterol – could lead to new therapeutics for the…
From the UC Riverside press release: New research by a University of California, Riverside psychologist raises serious questions about eyewitness identification procedures that are being adopted by police departments across the United States. These new…
From the American Psychological Association press release via Newswise: Working memory training is unlikely to be an effective treatment for children suffering from disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity or dyslexia, according to a research analysis published…
From the Colorado State University press release via MedicalXpress: Déjà vu – that strange feeling of having experienced something before – is more likely to occur when a scene’s spatial layout resembles one in memory,…
From the University of Edinburgh press release via EurekAlert!: Brains that maintain healthy nerve connections as we age help keep us sharp in later life, new research funded by the charity Age UK has found.…
From the Neuroscience Research Australia press release via MedicalXpress: Dr. Muireann Irish from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) found that dementia patients who can no longer recall general knowledge – for example, the names of famous…