Tag: memory

Study suggests reasons as to why memory changes with age

From the King’s College London press release: New research from King’s College London and The Open University could help explain why memory in old age is much less flexible than… Read more »

Study suggests manipulating specific brain waves in sleep shifts balance between learning or forgetting a new skill

From the University of California – San Francisco press release: Distinct patterns of electrical activity in the sleeping brain may influence whether we remember or forget what we learned the… Read more »

Study links fitness to better cognitive performance and healthy white matter in brain

From the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology press release: In a large study, German scientists have shown that physical fitness is associated with better brain structure and brain functioning in young… Read more »

Study points to benefits of exercise for the aging brain

From the University of Iowa press release: Exercise seems to endow a wealth of benefits, from the release of happiness-inducing hormones to higher physical fitness. New research shows it may… Read more »

Study suggests depression symptoms in Alzheimer’s could be signs for cognitive decline

From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release: Increasingly, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research has focused on the preclinical stage, when people have biological evidence of AD but no or minimal symptoms,… Read more »

Study suggests negative memory storage affects depression symptoms

From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Physical manifestations of negative memories in the hippocampus could underlie cognitive symptoms of depression, according to research in mice published in JNeurosci. Inhibiting these… Read more »