A relatively new area of neuroscience, decision neuroscience, explores exactly what happens within the brain in order for a person to form a decision. It delves into not only how people make decisions, but also how they learn to value of the information they receive in order to make the decision. Haven’t you ever wondered [...]
Parents are always challenged to get their children to eat good and nutritious meals and not the ‘junk food’ that has been shown to cause obesity and other health problems in children. Starting them off early in life, with the right balance of nutrition, increases their ability to concentrate and learn, improves memory, and if [...]
Abnormal proteins that form globs and restrict cognitive thinking, learning and memory problems in Alzheimer's patients are mostly made up of beta-amyloid peptide. By understanding how they form, and how they affect brain function, researchers can move forward to improve the diagnosis and treatment of dementia patients. A research team at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, [...]
Insomnia and sleep disorders are a very real problem with many people, and lack of sleep can inhibit the ability for you to remember, memorize and absorb information. When you are too tired to think your brain is not processing the information you need to be able to work efficiently, and you feel like you [...]
Researchers at Brandeis University have reported, in the Journal of Neuroscience, they can induce memory storage, and then biochemically erase it by manipulating a “memory molecule†protein kinase known as CaMKII. This breakthrough could do much to benefit research into diseases of the memory, such as Alzheimer’s or dementia. It also could prove to be [...]
It’s hard to imagine that something a common as a simple cold sore (herpes simplex) virus could become life-changing, but that’s exactly what happened to Clive Wearing in 1985. What was once a promising music career ended abruptly in what was reported to be the most extreme case of amnesia ever recorded. “Clive’s memory is [...]
Sensory memory is actually the ‘ultra-short-term memory’ of our brain. It runs much like a train terminal where it enters and gets routed to where it needs to go. From the initial impression made upon your senses the sensory memory carries the information and puts it on the right track to your working memory, where [...]
Hello, I am Ron White, memory training expert . I would like to share with you some lessons on discipline I have learned while working with my friend and former Navy SEAL, T.C. Cummings. People refer to someone who has not just a passion, but a determination within them as having a “fire in their [...]
I always enjoy finding research about memory improvement and brains function that involve some off-the-wall and fun way to come to a conclusion. As I have said before, making learning fun is an excellent memory tool, and I enjoy repeating these stories when I come across them. The two studies I am about to relate [...]
At various times in our lives we all feel as if we are going through what scientists call the “absent-minded professor syndrome.†Our brains get lost when we get engrossed in what we are doing and we forget little things. It doesn’t make us crazy, or mean our memory is going. Even memory experts have [...]
