Research identifies target for potentially developing new therapies to treat age-related cognitive decline —...
One of the most upsetting aspects of age-related memory decline is not being able to remember the face that accompanies the name of a person you just talked with hours earlier. While researchers don't...
How the brain focuses on what’s in mind — ScienceDaily
Working memory, that handy ability to consciously hold and manipulate new information in mind, takes work. In particular, participating neurons in the prefrontal cortex have to work together in synchrony to focus our thoughts,...
Longitudinal study shows the psychological disorder is an important comorbidity for dementia and other...
A new Canadian study has found that older people with insomnia are at greater risk of developing memory decline and long-term cognitive impairment such as dementia.
The study, published in the journal SLEEP, is based...
UCSF Radiology Welcomes Five New Faculty Members
The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to introduce the five new faculty members joining us on Thursday, September 1, 2022.Please join me in extending...
Good face recognizers can learn faces from fragments — ScienceDaily
Psychologists at UNSW Sydney and University of Wollongong have challenged the prevailing view that people with exceptional face recognition abilities rely on processing faces holistically.
Instead, they argue, people who are great at learning and...
Single dose of alcohol is enough to modify the brain, study finds — ScienceDaily
A research team from the University of Cologne and the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg has found that even the single administration of alcohol permanently alters the morphology of neurons. In particular, the structure...
Gene mutation linked to learning deficits in ‘Clueless’ mice — ScienceDaily
A single mutation in a gene, Kcnc3, which encodes a potassium channel in neurons, causes learning deficits in mice, UT Southwestern researchers report in a new study in PNAS. The novel mutation decreases the...
Novel music intervention sparks emotional connection between patients and caregivers — ScienceDaily
People with dementia often lose their ability to communicate verbally with loved ones in later stages of the disease. But a Northwestern Medicine study, in collaboration with Institute for Therapy through the Arts (ITA),...
Task-dependent learning and memory deficits in the TgF344-AD rat model of Alzheimer’s disease: three...
SubjectsTo establish a transgenic colony at Arizona State University, a male rat carrying the APP/PSEN1dE9 transgenes and 4 female WT rats on a Fischer 344 NHSD background were obtained from the University of Southern...
The inter-relationship between delirium and dementia: the importance of delirium prevention
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