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.
Not exact matches
«Using this combined approach, we were able to reduce the
levels of amyloid - beta, but, importantly, restored
spatial learning and
memory to the
level observed in healthy mice,» Jankowsky said.
The results showed a reduction
of symptoms in the mice who were fed with a ketogenic diet: they had normalized their social interactions and
spatial working
memory and they also weighed less and had lower blood glucose
levels than the first group who was on a regular diet.
Subjects were divided into two groups and tested on a variety
of numeracy - and
memory - related
memory tasks including
spatial recall and random number generation to identify a baseline
level of cognitive performance.
In literature, higher
level of immersion, compared to lower (e.g., desktop computer) reported significant results in terms
of explorative tasks (Boyd, 1997; Sandstrom et al., 1998), distance estimation and depth perception (Heineken and Schulte, 2001), cooperative tasks (Roberts et al., 2005), and short - term
spatial memory (Adamo - Villani and Johnson, 2010; Bailey et al., 2012).