Science news articles about 'old memories'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have discovered a series of molecular mechanisms that regulate how our brains call up, restore and even change old memories.

... University in Shanghai, were able to eliminate new and old memories alike by over-expressing a protein critical ... then erasing their memory of one of them. "You will feel like every time, it's a new toy ...

... because it suggests that episodic autobiographical memory referring to both recent and old memories, particular to each individual at the source of personal continuity over time, is preserved in early ...

What if one day we could disrupt unwanted consolidated memories like those of old traumatic experiences or even unforgettable heartbreaks and replace them with novel and more pleasant ones? Sounds ...

... capacity of the hippocampus is "occupied by un-erased old memories." Of course, Inokuchi added, "our finding ... dual role, he says, in both erasing old memories and acquiring new ones. Earlier studies ...

... elderly people develop dementia their short-term memory fails them: new information is no longer ... . Studies using brain scanners prove that, when consulting old memories, the brain works quite normally ...

... – and in particular, achieving the ability to stimulate the brain to repair itself, including restoring old memories and learning new information after damage and disease. … That understanding will ...

New neurons in adult brains clear away the remnants of old memories to make room for new ones.