Science news articles about 'making memories'

  • Moral philosopher questions memory manipulation

    ... -blockers do not cause amnesia. Rather they make memories less vivid, detailed and arousing,” ... torture, combat stress, and genocide, emotional memories may play a crucial role in one’s moral recovery.” ...
  • How memories are made, and recalled

    ... UCLA professor of neurosurgery, and colleagues, recorded the activity of hundreds of individual neurons making memories from the brains of 13 epilepsy patients being treated at the UCLA Medical Center ...
  • Scientists identify machinery that helps make memories

    ... endosome, a packet that contains new receptors. "These endosomes are like little memories waiting to happen," Ehlers said. "They are reservoirs of neurotransmitter receptors that brain cells deploy ...
  • 'Fly guy' makes memory breakthrough

    ... a shock, even in the absence of a future shock. This memory lasts for about a week—one-fifth of a lifetime to an average fruit fly. In his long-term memory experiment, Bolduc found just 10 per cent ...
  • UT Southwestern researchers discover brain's memory 'buffer' in single cells

    ... and genetic tools that will allow them to manipulate and possibly expand decision-making memory capacity. "If we can identify and manipulate the molecular components of memory, we can develop ...
  • That gut feeling may actually reflect a reliable memory

    ... Splitting attention during a memory test usually makes memory worse. "But our research showed ... effects were found in one group of 12 subjects. Both memory and brain-wave effects were also seen in pilot ...
  • Dietary fats trigger long-term memory formation

    Having strong memories of that rich, delicious dessert you ate last night? If so, you ... decreased. "OEA is part of the molecular glue that makes memories stick," Piomelli said. "By helping mammals ...
  • Researchers unravel mystery behind long-lasting memories

    ... School of Medicine may reveal how long-lasting memories form in the brain. The researchers hope that the findings ... tragedy arouses emotion and emotion somehow makes memories last for a long time, Hegde ...
  • Cancer drug may improve memory in Alzheimer's patients

    ... :1. The loss of short, day-to-day memories is often the first sign of Alzheimer's - a disease ... disease can start in about three to four years." "For making memories, you need transcription and protein ...
  • To make memories, new neurons must erase older ones

    ... initially depends on the hippocampus. That dependence progressively decays over time as memories are transferred to other regions, such as the neocortex. Scientists have also observed a similar decay ...
  • New brain link as cause of schizophrenia

    ... to investigate whether optimising the function of the receptors, which are already know to be involved in making memories, could lead to a new way of treating the mental illness. Schizophrenia is ...
  • Scientists find more evidence the aging brain is easily distracted

    ... this based on an abundance of scientific evidence indicating the importance of hippocampus for making memories. But the older brains showed additional increased activation in certain regions during ...
  • Colds may speed Alzheimer's decline

    Common infections, like colds and upset stomachs, may make memory loss more rapid in people with Alzheimer's disease, a new study has found. It may be that infections cause inflammation in the body, ...

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