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18 Dec 2024

Jobs That May Lower Your Risk Of Dying From Alzheimer’s, Not Doctors Or Pilots

Some professions are linked to a reduced risk of dying from Alzheimer’s disease The researchers suggest that jobs requiring active navigation and spatial problem-solving might stimulate the brain’s hippocampus Regularly engaging these cognitive skills may provide a protective effect against the condition.

08 Feb 2024

Odours Might Prompt Certain Brain Cells To Make Decisions, Says Research

These are cells that would remind you to make a decision - do this or do that, a researcher said The hippocampus turns on decision-predicting time cells which would give you a hint of what to remember The study expands current knowledge of what's involved in decision-making in the brain, specifically those quick-go, no-go decisions

16 Apr 2018

Brain's memory area might be associated with anxiety, depression

An area of the brain, commonly linked with memory and dementia, could also yield important clues about a range of mental health illnesses including addiction, anxiety and depression, a study has found.

30 Aug 2016

Stopping exercise for 10 days decreases brain blood flow

It is already known that stopping exercise can result in loss of cardiovascular endurance and the researchers wanted to find out what impact does the cessation of exercise have on our brains.

25 Aug 2016

Sleep deprivation may lead to memory loss

It has been proposed earlier that changes in the connectivity between synapses - structures that allow neurons to pass signals to each other - can affect memory.

06 Dec 2015

Exploring memory decline in epileptics

Four studies, exploring memory decline in the people with epilepsy, have uncovered the biological factors that mediate memory loss.

30 Oct 2015

Male and female brains work the same way: Study

The team examined findings from 76 published papers, involving more than 6,000 healthy individuals.

24 Oct 2015

Our memories reside in specific brain cells: MIT researchers

The researchers used optogenetics to show that memories really do reside in very specific brain cells, and that simply activating a tiny fraction of brain cells can recall an entire memory.

24 Sep 2015

How brain encodes memory of time and place

Neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified a brain circuit that processes the “when” and “where” components of memory.

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