Sentences with phrase «reactivated memories»

But many questions about the link between sleep spindles and reactivated memories during sleep remained.

Neuroscientists think that the brief exposure beforehand reactivates the memory of drug taking, making it easier to erase the link between the cues of drug taking and getting high, and to replace it with a memory in which no such link is formed.

He showed that reactivating a memory destabilizes it, putting it back into a flexible, vulnerable state.

Mayford's team hypothesized that reactivating a memory in this way might interfere with the ability to form new memories.

When they returned one day later and attempted to reactivate the memory using an emotional trigger, they could find no trace of it.

In a paper published today in the journal Science, researchers at MIT reveal that they were able to reactivate memories that could not otherwise be retrieved, using a technology known as optogenetics.

Not exact matches

The new openness — photos of Aung San Suu Kyi are now visible everywhere across Yangon — will reactivate political memories and debate.

In one study, which is based on the Betula project, a study on aging, memory and dementia, the researchers show that a reactivated herpes infection doubled the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

If the neurons are reactivated, the memories return.

Associated memories that are indirectly reactivated do not.

Slumber is known to improve recall in creatures from fruit flies to humans, and the reigning theory among neuroscientists has been that the waves of brain activity during deep sleep reactivate neurons that were triggered during the day, strengthening neuronal connections and cementing them into solid memories.

We ¿ re getting an idea of what the brain uses as its rules for picking out cortical memory traces to reactivate and bring into our conscious mind, and we ¿ re trying to see across wake - sleep cycles how that process happens.

The new work reveals that at least one form of long - term memory — that of fearful experiences — seems to become fragile when reactivated.

In the second study, reported online today in Nature, researchers were also able to reactivate an old memory in mice.

Both memory T cells subtypes can be reactivated with current immunotherapy treatments, and reactivation of both requires DC1 dendritic cells.

Tissue - resident memory cells generate an alert state that attracts and reactivates the circulating memory cells, resulting in a faster and more effective immune response.»

The results show that generation of an optimal immune response to cancer requires cooperation between two types of memory T cell — one circulating in the blood and the other resident in tissues — that can be reactivated with current immunotherapy strategies.

«Recalling a memory is reactivating a specific set of synapses.»

If these groups of neurons are subsequently reactivated by a trigger such as a particular sight or smell, for example, the entire memory is recalled.

When the engram cells were reactivated with light in the AD mice, memory of the footshock experience became retrievable and freezing behavior was restored.

Reactivating silent engrams could allow people with memory issues — like Alzheimer's sufferers, soldiers who have survived explosive blasts and concussed athletes in contact sports — to regain memories that have become inaccessible.

«We are seeing the immune system developing memory, which then reactivates to kill future cancer cells,» Chung said, referring to the ongoing positive response in patients successfully treated with immunotherapy.

Tantalizingly, Zhao's 2011 study showed that reactivating production of FMRP in new neurons could restore the formation of new memories in the mice.

What's more, Rose writes, «the results have exciting implications if noninvasive brain stimulation techniques can be used to reactivate and potentially strengthen latent memories» — in other words, recovering information that had been forever lost.

The exhibition forefronts the challenges of historicizing elusive artworks by presenting works that take photographic and video documentation and human memory as points of departure, reactivating, rearticulating and witnessing the interventions and works through the lens of the contemporary moment.

The exhibition forefronts the challenges of historicizing elusive artworks by presenting works that take photographic and video documentation and human memory as points of departure and reactivating, rearticulating, and witnessing the interventions and works through the lens of the contemporary moment.

She thus begins with a blank slate, slowly building up each display until it gains a language of its own, reactivating «memory.»

The basic premise is that posttraumatic reactions are not just clinical symptoms but reflect a psychological mechanism that serves the function of reactivating and processing traumatic memories so that they can lose their distressing properties and be effectively handled by the person's existing strengths or abilities.

Indeed, such problems in adulthood may reactivate earlier traumatic memories and lead to an exacerbation of PTSD.