Sentences with phrase «human memory studies»

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a mechanism that causes long - term memory loss due to age in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a widely recognized substitute for human memory studies.

Now, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a mechanism that causes long - term memory loss due to age in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a widely recognized substitute for human memory studies.

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Studies done of neglected children who did not receive adequate affection from another human being showed that these poor babies often suffered from chronic stress, a condition which may negatively effect the parts of the brain responsible for memory, focus and learning.

His studies back in the early 1990s led him to conclude that human consciousness requires autobiographical memory, which emerges from emotions and feelings.

A 2014 EEG study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found that NDE memories are stored as episodic memories — recollections of events that you yourself participated in, like recalling where you were when the 9/11 attacks happened, rather than simply remembering the fact that the attacks happened.

Asked about the implications of her research for humans, Josselyn said it does offer a «proof principle» for the very specialized, emotionally salient form of memories she has been studying.

The groundbreaking study, «Autonomic Activity During Sleep Predicts Memory Consolidation in Humans,» appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Preliminary studies of ampakines on healthy human subjects have shown small to moderate improvements in their performance on memory tests.

«The mistiming prevents older people from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said study senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the campus's Center for Human Sleep Science.

A small group of human studies have been done on a drug called propranolol, which blocks the action of stress neurotransmitters that help cement memories in the brain, but LeDoux's work shows the potential for greater precision.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

The study shows that great apes, like humans, can store and retrieve precise information in their long - term memories, and anticipate impending events, a cognitive skill that likely helps them deal with social intrigue and avoid danger.

Kidnapped, drugged, and left abandoned in a field, bees can still find their way home using mental maps of their surroundings, according to a new study that could pose a major challenge to current thinking about human memory and cognition.

Because the poisoned sea lions also have seizures, neuroscientists can learn more about epilepsy and memory loss in humans by studying these marine mammals, he says.

«In this study, for the first time, we determined these risk factors may also be indicative of early memory complaints, which are often precursors to more significant memory decline later in life,» said Small, who is also a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

The study is part of a research project led by professors Dominique de Quervain and Andreas Papassotiropoulos at the University of Basel, which aims to increase the understanding of neuronal and molecular mechanisms of human memory and thereby facilitate the development of new treatments.

Within so - called epigenetic research, several studies have suggested that human precursor cells have a memory of past environmental exposures.

Mice have proven to be a particularly good model for studies relevant to humans, Magnusson said, on such topics as aging, spatial memory, obesity and other issues.

The idea builds on the work of renowned neuroscientist Endel Tulving, who pioneered the study of human episodic memory — the recall of our autobiographical past.

Brain imaging studies show that areas of the brain for memory and visually processing human faces in people with MCI are structurally and functionally transformed.

«Creating images improved participants» memories and helped them commit fewer errors, regardless of what kind of list we gave them,» said Merrin Oliver, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. student in the educational psychology program in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State.

In a key memory experiment in the study, mice brains were injected with beta - amyloid, whose increase is one hallmark of Alzheimer's in humans.

A study led by the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) has identified a neural mechanism in humans that allows us to segment our experience in discrete memory units.

The study didn't test humans, and it doesn't solve all of motherhood's mysteries, Way acknowledges, but he hopes his team's future studies will determine how long the regulatory T cells» memory lasts and how to extend or boost the response.

Studying the images of a baby gearing up for a breastfeed, I found myself hit with a flood of memories: the smell of human milk, the physical sensation of feeding a baby and the emotions it provokes.

As in the first study, a group of young mice carrying the human gene APOE4 showed cognitive impairment on the behavioral level — in other words, they showed signs of damage on the level of spatial memory.

He studies human memory with a particular interest in the nature and spread of misinformation and runs a blog for the Psychonomic Society on human cognition.

Testing memory in non-humans presents nearly as many ambiguities as studying it in humans.

But he adds that the study does not show that human astrocytes are genetically normal when engrafted into the mouse brain, and it does not rule out the idea that the improved learning and memory «could be due to the persisting progenitor cells.»

Memory and attention research helps design cockpit displays and controls that pilots can manage despite noise and distractions, while studies of human - computer interactions help engineers construct virtual reality displays and training simulations.

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.

Neuroscientists studying rodents and humans have found that sleep deprivation interrupts the storage of episodic memories: information about who, what, when, and where.

This study presents the first evidence that microstimulation has the potential to improve hippocampal - dependent memory in humans.

The study, conducted in postmortem human brain cells and in mice, also offers the strongest causal evidence that age - related memory loss and Alzheimer's disease are distinct conditions.

In human studies, odor - naming difficulty is a strong indicator predicting the development of Alzheimer's in a person with mild memory complaints.

The few studies involving direct electrical stimulation of the hippocampus in humans have generally shown a disruptive effect on memory.

And because humans and flies share much of their genomes, studying the insect's sleep and memory may allow us to finally understand our own.

Two papers by Langmead and team, Ultrafast and memory - efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome and Fast gapped - read alignment with Bowtie 2, have been cited in more than 12,000 scientific studies since 2009.

Dr. Amaral's interests include research involving multidisciplinary studies directed at determining the neuroanatomical, behavioral and electrophysiological organization and functions of brain systems that are involved in learning, memory, emotion and social behavior carried out on the human brain and on animal models.

«Clinical studies have shown that apoE4 is associated with increased activity in the hippocampus at rest and in response to memory tasks in humans.

«We found that mice that had been genetically engineered to produce human apoE4 lost a specific kind of cells and that loss of these cells correlated with the extent of learning and memory deficits,» said Yaisa Andrews - Zwilling, PhD, postdoctoral fellow and lead author of the study.

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.

While small studies in humans with cognitive impairment have suggested that BHB could improve memory, senior scientist and Buck President and CEO, Eric Verdin MD, says this is the first study in aging mammals which details the positive effects of BHB on memory and lifespan.

«We've learned a lot about the brain from mice, but I think we can all agree that mice and humans are very different,» says Li - Huei Tsai, a neuroscientist at the Picower Institute for Memory and Learning at MIT who studies the neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease.

During her doctoral studies, Sasha investigated primary human immunodeficiencies, lymphocyte cell death and metabolic pathways as well as memory T cell subsets in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew Snow.

The same biochemical pathway the molecule acts on might one day be targeted in humans to improve memory, according to the senior author of the study, Peter Walter, PhD, UCSF professor of biochemistry and biophysics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Human skeletal muscles have an epigenetic memory of earlier encounters with growth, according to a Keele University - led study.

Since the discovery (in a human patient named H.M.) that hippocampal removal can lead to the inability to form new memories, the hippocampus has been studied as one of the primary sites of memory formation in the brain.12 While it has also been known since O'Keefe and Dostrovsky's initial experiments that the hippocampus plays a basic role in spatial navigation, how and why this tiny portion of the brain can host both spatial maps and complex memories has remained poorly understood.

He previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Brain Imaging and Modeling Section of the United States National Institutes of Health, where he conducted neuroimaging studies to examine human short - term memory.