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Schizophrenia risk gene linked to cognitive deficits in mice

October 24, 2019 0 Comments Disorders and Syndromes, Gene Therapy, Genes, Memory, Mental Health, Mental Health Research, Personalized Medicine, Schizophrenia

Researchers have discovered in mice how one of the few genes definitively linked to schizophrenia, called SETD1A, likely confers risk for the illness. Mice genetically engineered to lack a functioning version of the enzyme-coding gene showed abnormalities in working memory, mimicking those commonly seen in patients. Restoring the gene's function corrected the working memory deficit and counteracting its deficiency also repaired neuronal circuit deficits in adult mice — suggesting clues for potential treatment strategies.

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Greater understanding of Alzheimer's disease

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Research, Crohn's Disease, Dementia, Diseases and Conditions, Disorders and Syndromes, Healthy Aging, Memory

Scientists have made an important discovery in understanding the role a particular protein plays to impair memory in Alzheimer's disease, which could lead to more effective treatment in future.

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A new discovery: How our memories stabilize while we sleep

October 18, 2019 0 Comments Brain Injury, Insomnia Research, Memory, Nervous System, neuroscience, Parkinson's Research, Psychology Research, Sleep Disorders

Scientists have shown that delta waves emitted while we sleep are not generalized periods of silence during which the cortex rests, as has been described for decades in the scientific literature. Instead, they isolate assemblies of neurons that play an essential role in long-term memory formation.

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Fundamental insight into how memory changes with age

October 17, 2019 0 Comments Alzheimer's Research, Brain Injury, Children's Health, Dementia, Elder Care, Healthy Aging, Intelligence, Memory

New research could help explain why memory in old age is much less flexible than in young adulthood. Through experiments in mice the researchers discovered that there were dramatic differences in how memories were stored in old age, compared to young adulthood.

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Beyond the 'replication crisis,' does research face an 'inference crisis'?

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Biometric, Consumer Electronics, Dementia, Educational Policy, Engineering, Memory, Psychology, Scientific Conduct, surveillance

For the past decade, social scientists have been unpacking a 'replication crisis' that has revealed how findings of an alarming number of scientific studies are difficult or impossible to repeat. Efforts are underway to improve the reliability of findings, but cognitive psychology researchers say that not enough attention has been paid to the validity of theoretical inferences made from research findings.

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People pay more attention to stimuli they associate with danger

October 10, 2019 0 Comments ADD and ADHD, Educational Psychology, Infant and Preschool Learning, Language Acquisition, Learning Disorders, Memory, Mental Health, Perception

A new analysis of how people prioritize their attention when determining safety and danger in busy settings, such as crossing a road, suggests that a person will pay more attention to something if they learn it is associated with danger.

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Enhancing memory network via brain stimulation

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Educational Psychology, Intelligence, Memory, neuroscience, Perception, Psychology

Magnetic stimulation of the posterior parietal cortex increases functional connectivity of a neural network implicated in memory, shows human research. This finding confirms a previous study, validating further exploration of this technique for experimental and clinical applications.

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Food comas and long-term memories: New research points to an appetizing connection

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Animal Learning and Intelligence, Diabetes, Diet and Weight Loss, Endangered Animals, Food, Intelligence, Memory, Nutrition, Nutrition Research

There may be a connection between food comas — resting after eating — and the formation of long-term memories, a team of neuroscientists concludes based on its study on brain activity in sea slugs.

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Core symptom of schizophrenia reversed in adult mice

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Animal Learning and Intelligence, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Brain Tumor, Disorders and Syndromes, Memory, Mental Health Research, mice, Nervous System, Schizophrenia

Researchers have restored normal working memory to a mouse model of schizophrenia, eliminating a core symptom of the disorder that, in people, has proven virtually impossible to treat.

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Bad behavior between moms driven by stereotypes, judgment

October 9, 2019 0 Comments Child Development, Child Psychology, Education and Employment, Memory, Parenting, Popular Culture, Poverty and Learning, STEM Education

Mothers are often their own toughest critics, but new research shows they judge other mothers just as harshly. According to the results — which build upon previous work identifying seven stereotypes of mothers — ideal and lazy mothers drew the most contempt from both working and stay-at-home mothers. The overworked stay-at-home mom also was near the top of the list.

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