Sentences with phrase «human memory disorders»

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Scientists know how to make fruit flies and mice smarter, and efforts to come up with a treatment for Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders are leading to drugs that enhance memory and cognition in humans.

The real test, Conboy says, will come in clinical trials that aim to block B2M — or other related molecules — to treat or prevent memory disorders in humans.

The research may contribute to the development of medication that helps reduce the impact of traumatic memories and post-traumatic stress disorder in humans.

The study is an attempt to learn if humans can create memories unwittingly, memories so strong they may cause the debilitating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

This research may one day help extinguish traumatic memories in humans — for example, in people with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

These advances have provided a molecular framework for understanding some of the most devastating disorders that afflict humans as well as normal functions such as learning and memory.

The technique, carried out in living human cells and fruit flies, should help reveal how irregularities in protein synthesis contribute to developmental abnormalities and human disease processes including those involved in Alzheimer's disease and other memory - related disorders.

Understanding how this information is encoded could be key to understanding how human memory works as well as memory disorders.

Overgeneralization of aversive memories is thought to contribute to anxiety disorders in humans.

Human genetic studies strongly point to apolipoprotein E (APOE) and microglia (the immune cells of the brain) as, respectively, the most important gene and cell type in the chain of events leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD), a common disorder in the elderly in which the brain is damaged and memories falter.

We are also interested in the human diseases that affect learning and memory, including Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and ADHD.

Memory & Cognitive Disorder Awards encourage research aimed at translating laboratory discoveries about the brain and nervous system into diagnoses and therapies to improve human health.

The hope is that such studies in Drosophila will one day clarify the role neurexin plays in learning and memory, ultimately leading to a better understanding of how defects in this protein can lead to human disorders such as autism, Bhat said.

The study sheds light on the relationship of theta oscillations to human learning and exploration — and it could help inform future research on therapies for patients with memory disorders like Alzheimer's disease.

One review of 15 human studies found that supplementing with the bifidobacterium and lactobacillus strains of probiotics for 1 - 2 months can improve anxiety, depression, obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), and memory to boot!

Ravaged by a neurological disorder that destroys memory, humans roam a post-apocalyptic environment without the ability to recall the past and forge new memories.

This course surveys major areas of psychological science, including human social behavior, personality, psychological disorders, learning, memory, and biological influences.