News tagged with memory problems

Related topics: dementia , memory , mild cognitive impairment , alzheimer s disease , cognitive decline

Forget your previous conceptions about memory

Memory difficulties such as those seen in dementia may arise because the brain forms incomplete memories that are more easily confused, new research from the University of Cambridge has found. The findings are published ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gene therapy prevents memory problems in mice with Alzheimer's disease

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) in San Francisco have discovered a new strategy to prevent memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Humans with AD and mice genetically ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 28, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Caffeine reverses memory impairment in Alzheimer's mice

Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup. When aged mice bred to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease were given caffeine - the equivalent of five cups of coffee a day - their memory ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3

New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques

Two years ago, Martin Rinard's group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory proposed a surprisingly simple way to make some computer procedures more efficient: Just skip a bunch of ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Brain's 'autopilot' provides insight into early development of Alzheimer's disease

Watching the brain's "autopilot" network in real time may help determine the onset of cognitive decline and potentially aid in making an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers at Duke University ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Forget everything you thought you knew about memory

Research may shed light on why dementia sufferers have memory difficulties.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Low testosterone linked to Alzheimer's disease

Low levels of the male sex hormone, testosterone, in older men is associated with the onset of Alzheimer's disease, according to research by a team that includes a Saint Louis University scientist.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Vitamin B could delay onset of Alzheimer's: study

Large daily doses of B vitamins could delay -- or even halt -- the onset of Alzheimer's disease, a study suggested Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Researchers image earliest signs of Alzheimer's, before symptoms appear

(PhysOrg.com) -- Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer's disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and, ultimately, their lives.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

More blood pressure worry: It's linked to dementia

(AP) -- If the cardiologist's warnings don't scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Got cognitive activity? It does a mind good

If you don't have a college degree, you're at greater risk of developing memory problems or even Alzheimer's. Education plays a key role in lifelong memory performance and risk for dementia, and it's well documented that ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists give flies false memories

By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 9

New robots help humans cope with illness

Robots that can cook, dance to Michael Jackson songs or guide the blind are among the gadgets aimed at helping humans cope with illnesses on display in Spain at one of the world's biggest annual gatherings ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Regular moderate alcohol intake has cognitive benefits in older adults

A glass of wine here, a nightcap there - new research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that moderate alcohol intake offers long-term cognitive protection and reduces the risk of dementia ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Language skills in your twenties may predict risk of dementia decades later

People who have superior language skills early in life may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease decades later, despite having the hallmark signs of the disease, according to research published in the July 9, 2009, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1