News Articles on the brain, memory and learning

Here are recent news articles relating to the brain, memory and learning:

2008:

January

• Shape memory polymers designed for biomedical applications.
• Lack of imagination cause of declining memory in older adults.
• Brain detective of auditory and visual change.
• Mental and physical exercise delays dementia
• New MIT too probes brain circuits
• Newborn brain cells modulate learning and memory

2007:

December

• High Blood Pressure : Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment.
• MIT corrects inherited retardation autism in mice.

2007:

November

• Marked brain changes afflict even senior citizen.
• Studies find potential biomarker for PSTD.
• Nicotine alcohol interaction impacts learning.
• MIT-IDs enzymes are key to brainpower.
• Stress response in brain relies on a blood thinning protein.
• Memory can be manipulated by photos.
• Nitric Oxide can provide drugs for Schizophrenia.

2007:

October

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2003:

September

• Study shows brain activity influences immune function

August

• False memories, failing recall are not an inevitable consequence of aging, research suggests
• Boost Your Brain Power with Creatine
• Sandia team develops cognitive machines
• New principle guides memory dynamics
• Toxic protein could explain Alzheimer's and lead to breakthroughs

July

• Music Instruction Aids Verbal Memory
• Researchers find way to improve musical performance using biofeedback
• Biological clock more influenced by temperature than light
• Birth control for brain neurons
• Changes in deep brain tissue signal an increased risk for strokes

June

• Researchers find effects of Alzheimer's disease may be influenced by education
• Scientists find the root of learning in the brain's hippocampus
• Neural stem cells take a step closer to the clinic
• Researchers offer new theories about memory
• Scientists close in on understanding learning and memory

May

• What happens to the brain in space?
• Study on world's oldest monkeys may explain age-related mental decline

April

• Understanding Obesity: New research examines how hunger signals work in the brain
• White noise delays auditory organization in the brain

March

• Age-related changes in the brain's white matter affect cognitive function in old age
• Why Does Caffeine Delay Exercise-Induced Fatigue?
• Researchers find link between estrogen, brain structure changes
• First molecule discovered that directs nerve cells to connect with each other

February

• Brain images reveal effects of antidepressants
• Bone marrow cells take on new role in the brain

January

• Bone marrow generates new neurons in human brain
• Study is first to confirm link between exercise and changes in brain
• Human gene affects memory

2002:

• Brain anticipates events to learn routines
• Brain on a chip
• The brain uses the same neural networks to engage in conscious and unconscious learning
• Scientists' Experiments Confirm Theory Central to Memory Research
• Adult stem cells shown to develop into all brain cell types

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