Showing posts with label memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memory. Show all posts
Monday, April 01, 2024

When memories get complex, sleep comes to their rescue

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Here I point to a PNAS article by Lutz et al. and a commentary on the work by Schechtman. Here is the Lutz. et al. abstract: Significance R...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Brains creating stories of selves: the neural basis of autobiographical reasoning

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We all create our experienced selves from autobiographical reasoning based on remembered events in stories from our lives. In the journal So...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience

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Ellen Barry points to work by Perl et al. showing that different patterns of brain activity underlie sad versus traumatic autobiographical...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

The neurophysiology of consciousness - neural correlates of qualia

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This is a post for consciousness mavens.Tucker, Luu, and Johnson have offered a neurophyiological model of consciousness, Neurophysiological...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Widespread ripples synchronize human cortical activity during sleep, waking, and memory recall

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I pass on the summaries of work by Dickey et al. :   Significance Different elements of a memory, or any mental event, are encoded in loca...
Friday, July 15, 2022

How the organization of generalized knowledge promotes memory.

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From Wing et al. : Significance What we remember is shaped by what we already know. For example, remembering the angelfish from a recent ...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Older adults store too much information.

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From Amer et al. :   Highlights Healthy aging is accompanied by declines in control of attention. These reductions in the contr...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Temporal Self-Compression

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Brietzke and Meyer (open source) provide behavioral and neural evidence that our past and future selves are compressed as they move away fr...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Two promising post-traumatic stress disorder treatments

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I want to pass on references to two new approaches to relieving the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nuwer describes a n...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Gamma-frequency oscillations link different brain regions during learning.

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Fernández-Ruiz et al. demonstrate that specific, projected gamma-frequency oscillation patterns dynamically engage functionally related cel...
Thursday, April 01, 2021

False memories can be reversed without damage to true memories.

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  Oeberst et al.   demonstrate the effectiveness of source sensitization, which involves alerting participants that their memories could com...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Cannabis increases susceptibility to false memory.

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From Kloft et al .:   Significance This unique randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial examined the susceptibility to fals...
Monday, February 24, 2020

The role of memory suppression in resilience after trauma.

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Mary et al. report the neural differences that control the retrieval of traumatic memories in 102 individuals who were affected by the Pari...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Mechanism of exercise and antioxidant stimulation of memory and new nerve cell growth

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On reading this article by Yook et al. I promptly ordered a bottle of 10 mg astaxanthin capsules to add to my normal array of supplements (...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Synchronizing rhythmic brain circuits improves working memory in older adults.

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Our short term memory depends on theta rhythms (~6-10 Hz) and gamma rhythms (~25-100 Hz) in different parts of our brain being coupled and i...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The Neuroscience of ‘Rock-a-Bye Baby’

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I've always wondered why I sleep like a baby when on a boat being slowly rocked by waves, so was intrigued by Friedman's recent piec...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2018

Enhanced brain activity associated with highly superior memory.

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Santangelo et al. show that people with superior memory have enhanced connectivity of their prefrontal cortex with their hippocampus and te...
Monday, July 02, 2018

An optimistic outlook creates a rosy past.

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From Devitt and Schacter in the Harvard Psychology department, a study recruiting the usual gaggle of psychology undergraduate students as ...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

Sitting is bad for your brain...

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It is well known that sitting for long periods each day correlates with higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, and mortality rate. Siddarth...
Friday, April 13, 2018

Locus Coeruleus integrity and memory in aging adults

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The locus coeruleus is a deep brain nucleus whose cells synthesize noradrenaline that is sent via its axonal projections to other parts of t...