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Understanding How Memories are Retrieved in the Brain

Jul 21, 2020 by

Understanding How Memories are Retrieved in the Brain

For a new study published in the journal Science, researchers wanted to determine how memories are selectively retrieved in the brain. They identified sets of neurons that are responsible for memory-based decision-making, which is vital to our brains’ flexibility....

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Repeated Head Impacts Worsen Later-Life Cognition

Jul 17, 2020 by

Repeated Head Impacts Worsen Later-Life Cognition

A team of top scientists from across the United State analyzed the records of 13,323 people (average age was 62) and found that those exposed to repetitive head impacts were associated with worsened depression and cognitive function—even decades later....

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Older Adults Share Fewer Memories as They Age

Jul 14, 2020 by

Older Adults Share Fewer Memories as They Age

In a sad but telling piece of research published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, scientists used a smartphone app to listen in on the conversations of older adults and found that the older someone is, the less...

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Playtime With Dad May Improve Children’s Self-Control

Jul 10, 2020 by

Playtime With Dad May Improve Children’s Self-Control

In a fascinating new study from the University of Cambridge, researchers found that children whose fathers make time to play with them from a very young age may find it easier to control their behavior and emotions as they...

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Why We Remember Some Words More Than Others

Jul 7, 2020 by

Why We Remember Some Words More Than Others

Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke have discovered that our brains may recall some common simple words—such as “pig,” “door” and “tank” more often than other common simple words, such as “cat,” “stair,” and “street.”...

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Alzheimer’s Gene Risk Triggers Damage to Blood-Brain Barrier...

Jun 30, 2020 by

Alzheimer’s Gene Risk Triggers Damage to Blood-Brain Barrier

Although scientists have known for a while that the APOE4 gene is a risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s, researchers at the University of Southern California recently discovered that the variant is also linked to damage to the blood-brain barrier....

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