Sentences with phrase «spatial learning memory»

In an animal model, treadmill exercise improved symptoms of hyperactivity disorder, including an improvement in spatial learning memory (Kim et al. 2011).

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As part of the limbic system, it plays an important role in memory processing and spatial cognition, including how mammals learn to understand and navigate their environment.

«This is a well - established method for measuring spatial learning and memory,» study first author Takeru Shima says.

However, at age 9 months and 12 months, mice on the extra virgin olive oil - enriched diet performed significantly better on tests designed to evaluate working memory, spatial memory, and learning abilities.

The researchers found that after injury only mice with intact neurogenesis could develop an efficient strategy to find the hidden platform, a skill that is known to rely on spatial learning and memory.

This brain region plays a critical role in learning new information, forming spatial memories and storing short - term memories as long - term ones.

The hippocampus — a region crucially involved in forming «episodic» memories (event recall) and spatial memory (for physical navigation)-- is especially affected by aging, with accompanying declines in the ability to learn and remember; it also deteriorates early on when afflicted by Alzheimer's.

According to McQuillan, a Ph.D. candidate in evolutionary biology at Lehigh and lead author of the study, the northern Black - capped Chickadee is a model species for studying spatial memory and learning, traits that are key to scatter - hoarders» survival.

The bacteria may speed up learning because the Raphe nuclei stimulate a brain region called the hippocampus, which handles spatial memory, she says.

«My lab works on the neural bases of learning and memory,» says Pozzo - Miller, «so we decided to test if LM22A - 4 was able to improve spatial discrimination deficits by enhancing synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for spatial learning and memory.»

The next day, the same rodents did not succeed the spatial memory task learned on the previous day.

«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.

These developmental defects in the wiring of neural circuits cause very selective alterations in spatial learning and memory in adult mice.

There was no difference between mutant and normal mice when it came to investigating an empty cage, however, and the mutants even outperformed normal mice on a test of spatial learning and memory, suggesting that their deficit was specific for social behavior.

First, the Morris maze can detect similar deficits in spatial learning and memory across species.

Here, we examined the extent to which performance in the Morris water maze — the most frequently used behavioral assay of spatial learning and memory in rodents — translates to humans.

Stimulation of the entorhinal region enhanced memory of spatial information when applied during learning.

A deficit in procedural learning can alter performance in the hidden - target task and confound the interpretation of spatial memory.

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In a test of spatial learning and memory, the mice with extra klotho performed twice as well.

Harding, a medicinal chemist, and Wright, a neuroscientist, have been working on their compound since 1992, when they started looking at the impact of the peptide angiotensin IV on the hippocampus, a brain region involved in spatial learning and short - term memory.

A High Fructose Diet Does Not Affect Amphetamine Self - Administration or Spatial Water Maze Learning and Memory in Female Rats.

In the AD reversal treatment strategy described here, J147 significantly improved several different aspects of memory affected in AD, including spatial memory, a disinhibition phenotype and hippocampal dependent associative learning (Figure 1).

They have spatial learning and memory defects as assessed in the Morris water maze and the radial arm maze, show developmental delay in sensorimotor milestones, and exhibit locomotor hyperactivity, lack of behavioral inhibition, and stereotypic behavior.

The dentate gyrus, part of the hippocampus, is involved in learning, episodic memory formation and spatial coding.

The idea that the activity of a place cell is predictive and can be modified by learning and the behavior of other animals may make it easier to conceptualize an all - encompassing framework that ties together the hippocampus» role in spatial navigation with its well - established role in learning and memory formation.

Changes in the time it takes the rodent to find the platform in a series of successive trials can be used as a measure of spatial learning and memory.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asia.201600259/full Subcutaneous administration of cyclodextrin significantly improved spatial learning and memory deficits in Alzheimer disease mice model doi: 10.1084 / jem.20121239.

That means I need to find ways to increase BDNF more than in someone with the normal gene in order to preserve my cognitive function, memory, and emotional regulation.8 Mu, J.S., et al. «Deprivation of Endogenous Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor Results in Impairment of Spatial Learning and Memory in Adult... continue 9Cirulli, F., et al. «Intrahippocampal Administration of BDNF in Adult Rats Affects Short - term Behavioral Plasticity in the Morris Water Maze and... comemory, and emotional regulation.8 Mu, J.S., et al. «Deprivation of Endogenous Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor Results in Impairment of Spatial Learning and Memory in Adult... continue 9Cirulli, F., et al. «Intrahippocampal Administration of BDNF in Adult Rats Affects Short - term Behavioral Plasticity in the Morris Water Maze and... coMemory in Adult... continue 9Cirulli, F., et al. «Intrahippocampal Administration of BDNF in Adult Rats Affects Short - term Behavioral Plasticity in the Morris Water Maze and... continue

Mu, J.S., et al. «Deprivation of Endogenous Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor Results in Impairment of Spatial Learning and Memory in Adult Rats,» Brain Research 835 (1999): 259 - 265

According to one study, mice that had been supplemented with maca for five weeks showed far better coordination, spatial learning and memory than those fed a normal diet.

Impressively, rats in the astragalus group showed dramatic reductions in anxiety compared to the control group, along with improved spatial learning, memory, and even immune response.

The course familiarizes teachers with eight brain functions and systems that directly affect students» learning, such as memory and spatial ordering, and offers suggestions for addressing problems with these functions.

Basically, the visual learning style means that people need to see information to learn it, and this «seeing» takes many forms from spatial awareness, photographic memory, color / tone, brightness / contrast and other visual information.

Cognitive behavior issues include difficulties with spatial orientation (a sense of direction while moving around); problems with memory, learning, housetraining; and difficulty in recognizing and reacting to human family members.

Cognitive behavior issues include difficulties with spatial orientation (a sense of direction while moving around); problems with memory, learning, housetrainin...

Cognitive behavior includes spatial orientation; problems with memory, learning, housetraining; and recognizing and reacting to human family members.

Like learning a new language, learning how to play an instrument has a proven impact on brain development, showing that «learning to play a musical instrument not only increases grey matter volume in various brain regions, but can also strengthen the long - range connections between them» and that» musical training also enhances verbal memory, spatial reasoning, and literacy skills».

Comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations typically include: intelligence, achievement / academic skills, executive functioning, learning and memory, language, visual spatial skills, coordination, social skills, behavioral and emotional functioning, and personality.»

They had less white and cortical gray matter, and smaller - sized hippocampi and amygdale — brain structures that play a key role in spatial learning, memory consolidation, stress reactivity, and the processing of emotion.

In our written reports, common areas of discussion include attention and concentration, intellectual abilities, language skills, visual spatial abilities, executive functioning issues, learning and memory and psychological functioning.