Tag: memory
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Let your overall health go up with a sound eight hours of sleep
A good night’s sleep is critical to health because it helps your body repair itself and also helps you function normally during the day
July 19, 2019 -
Eating dark chocolate cuts stress, boosts memory
Consuming dark chocolate can reduce stress and inflammation, as well as improve memory, immunity and mood.
April 25, 2018 -
Sonam faces woes of bad mattress
Actress Sonam Kapoor feels conned by the concept of memory foam mattresses as they have done more bad than good to her. Sonam tweeted on Thursday: “Memory foam mattresses are a con… whole body and neck in bad shape after using them. Please don’t fall for the marketing bull.” Memory foam mattresses are a con.. …
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January 11, 2018 -
Reading aloud to yourself may boost memory
According to the study survey, speaking text aloud helps to get words into long-term memory.
December 2, 2017 -
Eating pistachios, peanuts may boost mental skills
Nuts have been known to play a crucial role in protecting the heart, fighting cancer, reducing inflammation and slowing the ageing process.
November 16, 2017 -
Lack of sleep may affect brain functioning
Sleep deprivation is an acute problem. It could have negative consequences on your health.
November 14, 2017 -
This exercise can boost brain power
Researchers found that the group that practiced the "dual n-back" exercise showed a 30 per cent improvement in their working memory.
October 18, 2017 -
How to sharpen your memory
Simple physical activities carried out regularly for a prolonged time can help improve brain functioning.
September 28, 2017 -
Decoded: How brain recognises familiar faces
US researchers have discovered two previously unknown areas of the brain that help humans process familiar and unfamiliar faces differently. Working with rhesus macaque monkeys — primates whose face-processing systems closely resemble our humans — Winrich Freiwald and Sofia Landi from the Rockefeller University in the US, identified brain areas that are capable of integrating …
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August 14, 2017 -
Action video games may affect memory
Is your teenaged son addicted to playing action video games? Beware, it can reduce episodic memory and spatial navigation, and increase the risk of developing brain disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, researchers have warned. The findings showed that habitual players of action video games had a reduction in grey matter in …
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August 8, 2017 -
Moderate drinking may keep dementia at bay
While drinking alcohol in excess is associated with many health hazards, new research has found that older adults who consume alcohol moderately on a regular basis are more likely to live to the age of 85 without dementia or other cognitive impairments than non-drinkers. "This study is unique because we considered men and women's cognitive …
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August 2, 2017 -
Can alcohol boost memory?
Alcohol may improve memory about information learned before the drinking session began, a new study from University of Exeter in Britain has claimed. The researchers are, however, keen to stress that this limited positive effect should be considered alongside the well-established negative effects of excessive alcohol on memory and mental and physical health. Although the …
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July 26, 2017 -
Yoga may protect against memory decline
Practising yoga may protect against cognitive decline in old age by increasing the thickness in brain areas associated with attention and memory, a study claims. Scientists in Brazil imaged elderly female yoga practitioners' brains and found they have greater cortical thickness in the left prefrontal cortex, in brain areas associated with cognitive functions like attention …
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July 14, 2017 -
Over 100 genes linked to memory identified
Scientists have identified over 100 genes linked to memory, opening up new avenues of research to better understand memory processing in the human brain. The results showed that a different group of genes, which had not previously been linked to any brain process, are used in memory processing than the genes involved when the brain …
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June 1, 2017 -
‘Repeated anaesthesia exposure may impair memory in kids’
Repeated exposure to a common anaesthesia drug early in life leads to visual recognition memory impairment, which may persist for a long time, a new study warns. Impairment in visual recognition memory emerges after the first year of life, researchers said. "Our results confirm that multiple anaesthesia exposures alone result in memory impairment in a …
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June 1, 2017 -
Over 100 genes linked to memory in humans identified
Researchers have identified more than 100 genes that can help them understand correlations between these genes and human brain activity during memory processing. "This is very exciting because the identification of these gene-to-behaviour relationships opens up new research avenues for testing the role of these genes in specific aspects of memory function and dysfunction," said …
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March 27, 2017 -
Over 100 genes linked to memory in humans identified
Researchers have identified more than 100 genes that can help them understand correlations between these genes and human brain activity during memory processing. "This is very exciting because the identification of these gene-to-behaviour relationships opens up new research avenues for testing the role of these genes in specific aspects of memory function and dysfunction," said …
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March 27, 2017