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Category Archives: neuroscience
Feeding The Brain’s Sweet Tooth To Maintain Memory Fitness
Brain’s prefrontal cortex regulates impulses but loses its ability to inhibit desire for high-calorie food when glucose levels drop. Continue reading
Brain’s Stress Coping Gene Hurts Memory Under Chronic Stress
The RCAN1 gene that normally helps neuronal brain cells cope with stress becomes overproduced, causing damaged neurons. Continue reading
Dopamine Released After Brain Training Improves Working Memory Performance
Dopamine Released After Brain Training Improves Working Memory Performance. Continue reading
New AAN Tools Teach Coaches and Athletes How to Spot and Deal With Concussion
AAN publishes new tools for high school coaches, athletes and parents of youths to learn the signs of sports concussion, emphasizing when a player must leave the game and when – and if – it’s ok to return to play.
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Posted in Assessment, Brain Injury, Memory Health, neuroscience, Uncategorized
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Some Jokes Activate Brain’s Reward Centers More Than Others
Certain types of humor show high fMRI activity levels in the brains pleasure centers.
Results indicate that humor may help to indicate levels of emotion in vegetative state patients. Continue reading
Dopamine Involved In Neuroplasticity Through New Neuron Formation
Dopamine controls the formation of new neurons in the adult brain by switching on genes for new stem cells neuroplasticity, salamander studies show. Such regulation may impact future interventions in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkenson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Continue reading
Statins May Even Reduce Risk of Stroke In Younger Adults
Statins may prevent stroke reoccurrence in younger patients. Continue reading
Posted in Brain Injury, Memory Fitness, neuroscience, Stroke, Uncategorized
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Paying Attention To The Pleasures Of ADHD
Brain circuits involved in the development of ADHD found anomalies in attention related pleasure centers of the brain …. the brain’s dopamine-mediated reward system related to motivation and gratification. Continue reading
Age-Related Memory Loss Reversed in Animal Study
Age-related memory loss due to slowing of prefontal cortex neuron firing rate may be reversible. Continue reading