Sentences with phrase «to form new memories»

The film centers on a father attempting to connect with his son, whose brain tumor prevents him from forming new memories.

Individuals having mild cognitive impairment are still able to cope with daily living tasks but have difficulty forming new memories.

Although the surgery reduced his seizures, he couldn't form new memories.

If the team's hypothesis is correct, activating the old memory of the bland room would interfere with the mice's ability to form a new memory about the bad cage.

The lizards could be rehearsing the day's events as they sleep, forming new memories of all the places they found a snack.

But, the recent findings are positive in more ways than one as they could be equally vital in the search of how patients in early to late stages of Alzheimer's have an increased difficulty in forming new memories.

Molaison's experience suggested the hippocampus helps form new memories, while long - term memories and subconscious skill memories reside elsewhere in the brain.

Synapses that are more active become stronger, a process that is essential for forming new memories.

Gathering the crew outside of the office in a casual atmosphere makes it easy for people to get to know one another and form new memories while having fun.

We can then feed in the correct patterns to assist the patient's brain in accurately forming new memories, not as a replacement for innate memory function, but as a boost to it.

The team hypothesizes that ISRIB may work by allowing normal protein synthesis — essential for making new neuronal connections and thus forming new memories — to resume, which would otherwise be blunted by the integrated stress response.

Although the procedure curbed his seizures, Molaison could no longer form new memories.

Dr. Milner is best known for work with an epileptic patient known as H.M., who had become unable to form new memories after having parts of both temporal lobes of his brain surgically removed.

Removing HDAC3 restores flexibility and allows internal cell machinery to access Period1 to begin forming new memories.

Molaison lost the ability to form new memories of events, and his recollection of anything that had happened during the preceding year was severely impaired.

(Director: Jim Kohlberg; Screenwriters: Gwyn Lurie and Gary Marks, based on the story «The Last Hippie» by Oliver Sacks)-- A father struggles to bond with his estranged son who suffers a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories.

«Without BDNF, our brains can't form new memories and we can't learn (or remember) much of anything,» according to an article in Forbes magazine.

Frank: We're interested in what are called replay events in the hippocampus, which is a brain region critical for forming new memories.

The treatment, known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), works, but it can cause memory loss and confusion and lead to difficulty forming new memories.

The hippocampus also plays an important role in forming new memories and creating mental maps of space.

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

The hippocampus has been the focus of intense scrutiny by memory researchers since the late 1950s, when it was surgically removed from a patient known as H.M. — who was thereafter unable to form new memories.

People suffering from anterograde amnesia — caused by damage to the brain's hippocampus — can remember details about their past but lack the ability to form new memories.

Dr Milos Petrovic, co-author of the study and Reader in Neuroscience at the University of Central Lancashire added: «Untangling the interactions between the signal receptors in the brain not only tells us more about the inner workings of a healthy brain, but also provides a practical insight into what happens when we form new memories.

If injured, the hippocampus may be compromised, resulting in a patient's inability to form new memories.

The famous patient HM, who'd had his hippocampus removed, was unable to form new memories.

Scientists do not yet understand that language, but experiments suggest that it is part of the neurological conversation that takes place as we learn and form new memories.

Since synapses change as we learn and form new memories, Marie E. Gibbs of Monash University in Australia suspected that astrocytes might be important to our ability to learn.

Thomas is experimenting on rats, injecting the animals with bits of genetic material that block the proteins needed to form new memories and to store established ones after they are recalled.

This is particularly important during early development but continues throughout life as the brain learns and forms new memories.

By removing tissue from each side of Molaison's brain, the surgeon helped quell the attacks but destroyed his patient's ability to form new memories.

SINGING to elderly people with dementia helps them form new memories, one of the first skills they tend to lose.

She was incapable of forming new memories, yet she had nevertheless remembered something — a subconscious sense of danger, a remembrance of past trauma.

An experiment performed nearly 100 years ago by Swiss psychologist Édouard Claparède provides a clue: Claparède was treating a woman suffering from a debilitating form of amnesia that left her incapable of forming new memories.

«This may occur at the cost of a diminished ability to form new memories, a process which may underlie the loss of short - term memory observed in brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

She hasn't flown a plane since 2007, when viral encephalitis destroyed her hippocampus, the part of the brain used to form new memories and retrieve old ones.

Now, the first study of its kind in mice suggests that the brain may clear away that old information in the process of forming new memories.

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

If you could create electronics that interpret the signals from one area, circumvent the damaged parts, and write them into the second area, you could help people regain the ability to form new memories, or even gain access to...

The hippocampus plays a well - known role in the brain's ability to form new memories and to help animals — from mice to humans — navigate through complex environments.

Molaison (often referred to as HM in the scientific literature) was subsequently unable to form new memories of people.

«The hippocampus allows us to form new memories of «what, when and where» that help us navigate our lives,» said HSCI Principal Faculty member and the study's corresponding author, Amar Sahay, PhD, «and neurogenesis — the generation of new neurons from stem cells — is critical for keeping similar memories separate.»

By administering a compound called anisomycin, which blocks protein synthesis within neurons, immediately after mice had formed a new memory, the researchers were able to prevent the synapses from strengthening.

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.

Studies done in mice show that chronically elevated stress hormone levels shrink the hippocampus, so you're less likely to form new memories.

Only if the activity is enjoyable will you be willing to do it long enough to learn all you can about it and form new memories from it.

Eating too much sugar literally changes your brain; it reduces the amount of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF; the stuff our brain uses to form new memories, learn and remember)-- bad news for our brain!