From the Georgetown University Medical Center press release: Education appears to protect older adults, especially women, against memory loss, according to a study by investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center, published in the journal Aging, Neuropsychology,…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: A woman walking down the street hears a bang. Several moments later she discovers her boyfriend, who had been walking ahead of her, has been shot.…
From the University of Tsukuba press release: The presence of dreaming during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep indicates that memory formation may occur during this sleep stage. But now, researchers from Japan have found that activity in…
From the Stanford University press release: Even among healthy people, a faltering memory is often an expected part of aging — but it’s not inevitable. “Some individuals exhibit remarkable maintenance of memory function throughout late…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: A child’s unique brain activity reveals how good their memories are, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. When you scramble to remember a phone number as you enter…
From the University of Technology Sydney press release: New research is one of the first comprehensive characterizations of poorly formed memories and may offer a framework to explore different therapeutic approaches to fear, memory and…
From the Cell Press press release: When we fall asleep, our brains are not merely offline, they’re busy organizing new memories — and now, scientists have gotten a glimpse of the process. Researchers report in…
From the University of Queensland press release: Fear is an important survival mechanism and so too is the ability to inhibit fear when it’s no longer needed. In order to counter-balance fear, the brain engages…
From the Goethe University Frankfurt press release: We learned it as children: to cross the street in exemplary fashion, we must first look to the left, then to the right, and finally once more to…
From the Yale University press release: When people behave selfishly, they have a reliable ally to keep their self-image well-polished — their own memory. When asked to recall how generous they were in the past,…