Youthful cognitive ability strongly predicts mental capacity later in life
Education, job complexity and intellectual activities play only minor roles Early adult general cognitive ability (GCA) -- the diverse set ...
Tag: Memory/Cognitive Processes
Researchers identify specific cognitive deficits in individuals with spinal cord injury
Similarities in cognitive findings between persons with spinal cord injury and older healthy individuals could indicate accelerated aging of the ...
Researchers identify brain cells likely involved in memories of eating that influence next meal
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Brain cells involved in memory play an important role after a meal in reducing future eating ...
Brain vital signs capture undetected impairments in ice hockey players with concussions
New concussion study shows existing tests may not be detecting brain function changes in young ice hockey playersCredit: Health and ...
Epigenetics contribute to male and female differences in fear memory
A study in Biological Psychiatry investigates sex-specific epigenetic regulation of fear memory Philadelphia, January 17, 201 In a mouse model ...
Neurofeedback helps to control learning success
Our brain uses filter systems to efficiently manage the gigantic amounts of information that flow over us. Neuronal alpha oscillations ...
Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction
Bad decision-making is a trait oftentimes associated with drug addicts and pathological gamblers, but what about people who excessively use ...
Post-traumatic stress disorder: alleviating flashbacks by playing Tetris
Initial results have raised hopes of a method that can alleviate the symptom of flashbacks without therapists -- because there ...
Disrupted networks link overlapping cognitive deficits in psychiatric disorders
A meta-analysis in Biological Psychiatry identifies dysfunction of neurocognitive networks across multiple psychiatric disorders Philadelphia, January 3, 2019- Psychiatric disorders ...
Meta-analysis highlights important challenges in cognitive processing for adults with ASD
The first comprehensive, systematic review and meta-analysis of adults with autism shows that despite having an intact IQ, these adults ...
MGHfC study details development of functional skills in persons with Down syndrome
When expectant parents learn their child will be born with Down syndrome, they invariably have questions about what this diagnosis ...
Our social judgments reveal a tension between morals and statistics
People make statistically-informed judgments about who is more likely to hold particular professions even though they criticize others for the ...
Long-term memory encoding engram neurons are established by the transcriptional cycling
While long-term memory (LTM) is known to be encoded in specific neural cells, engram neurons, it has been unclear how ...
Study yields new insight on how memory works
Experiment with amnesia patients helps explain role of hippocampusCredit: Courtesy of Dr. Christine Smith Two Veterans Affairs researchers have explored ...
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