Brain scans and memory tests may work as an early warning system for Alzheimer's disease, researchers said Tuesday.
Watch young chimpanzees beat Japanese college students in a short-term-memory test by a wide margin—raising questions about primate intelligence and evolution.
... ," said Haan. "Until our study enrolled them, they had never had their memory tested."
During the five-year study, 27 percent took a statin drug. A total of 130 people ...
... hippocampus, a brain region important in learning and memory, repeatedly "replays" brain activity from recent ... sleep replay also performed better on memory tests. The researchers tested the same 22 rats ...
... placebo. Both groups scored the same on memory tests, however, implying that PET scans ... research suggests that the treatment of early symptoms of memory loss may protect the brain and help people ...
... three groups. The first group underwent memory testing after 12 hours spent awake ... smashed car] as accurately as the subjects whose memories had been tested only 30 minutes after looking at the scenes ...
... attention to the distracting information directly correlated with how well the participants did on the memory test.
In the current study, the team used electroencephalography (EEG), which measures ...
... that older African-Americans who reported having trouble falling asleep tended to do much worse on memory tests than those study participants who did not have trouble falling asleep. ...
... the brains of five deceased people considered super aged because of their high performance on memory tests when they were more than 80 years old and compared them to the brains of elderly, non- ...
... or generating neurons must occur before the memory loss is obvious, Wenk said.
Marchalant led ... rats received no intervention. In follow-up memory tests, in which rats were placed in a small swimming ...
... studied rats that were exposed to mobile phone radiation for two hours a week for more than a year. These rats had poorer results on a memory test than rats that had not been exposed to radiation.
... been on the original list, when in fact, it was not.
The women then participated in another memory test, which measured the participants' propensity to forget what they had just remembered. The ...
... journal Nature Neuroscience.
During the first part of the memory test, study participants were shown a series of ... saw each old image.
The findings include memory effects and brain-wave effects. The ...
... people had parents without dementia. Scientists tested for a gene thought to be a strong risk factor ... determine whether the poorer performance on memory testing in middle age would lead to an increased ...
People who have parents diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or dementia perform less well on formal memory testing when compared to people of the same age whose parents never ...
