News tagged with episodic memories
Chess experts use brain differently than amateurs
Experts use different parts of their brains than amateurs, maximizing intuition, goal-seeking and pattern-recognition, said a study out Thursday that examined players of shogi, or Japanese chess.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 20, 2011 |
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New study reconciles conflicting data on mental aging
A new look at tests of mental aging reveals a good news-bad news situation. The bad news is all mental abilities appear to decline with age, to varying degrees. The good news is the drops are not as steep as some research ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Alcohol dependence damages both episodic memory and awareness of memory
Alcohol dependence (AD) has negative effects on cognitive processes such as memory. Metamemory refers to the subjective knowledge that people have of their own cognitive processing abilities, such as their monitoring and ...
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Mental problems in an old person do not always mean Alzheimer's disease
The case of an elderly woman who had mental problems associated with Alzheimer's disease, but turned out to have treatable limbic encephalitis, is detailed in a Case Report in this week's edition of The Lancet. The case i ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 19, 2010 |
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Paradigm shift in memory development
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from UC Davis challenges conventional wisdom on the development of memory in children.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 02, 2010 |
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The early detection of age-related memory deficits in mice
By studying the aging of memory in the mouse, CNRS researchers (France) have developed an experimental protocol that can detect age-related memory deficits at an early stage. They have shown that even at 10 ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are learning that the dynamic regulation of genes -- as much as the genes themselves -- shapes the fate of organisms. Now the discovery of a new epigenetic mechanism regulating genes in the brain ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 24, 2009 |
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New study may help understand how Alzheimer's robs sufferers of episodic memory
Memory loss is love's great thief. Those who suffer aren't just the ones who can't remember—family, friends and loved ones agonize over how to react when the disorder begins its often inexorable progress.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 18, 2009 |
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Effects of disease severity on autobiographical memory in semantic dementia revealed in new study
In a study conducted by the Laboratory of Neuropsychology of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie and published by Elsevier in the April 2009 issue of Cortex, researchers studied for the first time autobiographical memory ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2009 |
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