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Magpies can form friendships with people – here’s how
Magpies have long memories, and human behaviour towards them largely determines how they respond. By Gisela Kaplan.
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History's 17 most bizarre amnesia cases.
Amnesia is a popular plot device in movies and television, but real-life instances of memory loss are arguably more bizarre than anything seen on the screen.
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On Unread Books
On the danger of talking about books you’ve neglected: an excerpt from the forthcoming book by the late Umberto Eco.
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Positive, warm, trusting friendships may be key to slower decline in memory & cognitive functioning.
SuperAgers, 80+ year olds who have cognitive ability at least as good as people in their 50s or 60s, report more satisfying, high-quality relationships compared to cognitively average, same-age peers.
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Study finds reading information aloud to yourself improves memory
You are more likely to remember something if you read it out loud, a study from the University of Waterloo has found. A recent Waterloo study found that speaking text aloud helps to get words into long-term memory. Dubbed the “production effect,” the study determined that it is the dual action of speaking and hearing oneself that has the most beneficial impact on memory.
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Deadly Valentine
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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An Ancient Virus May Have Given Humans the Ability to Form Memories
How does memory work? The further we seem to dive in, the more questions we stumble upon about how the function of memory first evolved. Scientists made a key breakthrough with the identification of the Arc protein in 1995, observing how its role in the plastic changes in neurons was critical to memory consolidation.
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This Is Where Your Childhood Memories Went
Your brain needs to forget in order to grow. By Ferris Jabr.
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'Memory transplant' achieved in snails
Memories are transferred from one snail to another in a laboratory. By Shivani Dave.
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What Is Consciousness?
Scientists are beginning to unravel a mystery that has long vexed philosophers. By Christof Koch.
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Could you have this memory disorder?
Susie McKinnon doesn’t remember being a child or remember being any age other than she is now: in her 60s. She can’t remember special events, either. She knows she went to her nephew’s wedding. She knows her husband went with her. But she can’t actually remember being there. In fact, she has very few memories from her life – but she doesn’t have amnesia.
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We’ve started to uncover the true purpose of dreams
For the first time, researchers have got evidence that dreams help soothe the impact of emotional events in our lives, acting like overnight therapy. By Rowan Hooper. (July 18, 2018)
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The Traumatic Event Changed My Life Forever and How God Uses it
Last time I was writing my testimony I was living with my mom and step-dad again. The experience of staying out all night with my friend was the start of a change in me. I was ashamed and embarrassed by what happened. I could never tell mom the truth. I am the one who chose to go to the guy's house. So, I took the
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My Poor Scattered Brain How I Miss My Healthy Brain
Scattered Brain It is true how you take things for granted. Then when it is damaged or lost for good it is so missed. I never realized just how much my brain did for me. Your brain is who you are, it regulates everything in your body. It gets damaged you are never the same. After that fateful car accident in 1988
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A Man Full of Empty Promises and How He Changed My Address
a man full of empty promises I believe where we left off in my testimony was right after my daughter was sexually abused and I met J in an online Traumatic Brain Injury Chat room. I had been chatting with J for a few months until we exchanged phone numbers. Now we were talking on the phone everyday. When my kids
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Rocking improves sleep and memory, studies in mice and people show
Anyone who has ever put a small child to bed or drifted off in a gently swaying hammock will know that a rocking motion makes getting to sleep seem easier. Now, two new studies reported in Current Biology on January 24, one conducted in young adults and the other in mice, add to evidence for the broad benefits of a rocking motion during sleep. In fact, the studies in people show that rocking not only leads to better sleep, but it also boosts memory consolidation during sleep.
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How to Become a ‘Superager’
Think about the people in your life who are 65 or older. Some of them are experiencing the usual mental difficulties of old age, like forgetfulness or a dwindling attention span. Yet others somehow manage to remain mentally sharp. My father-in-law, a retired doctor, is 83 and he still edits books and runs several medical websites.
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On The Tip Of My Tongue
Or when you’re talking about a movie with that great actor everyone knows, and when you start saying his or her name, your brain stops. Then you start naming other movies the actors played in, start to describe his looks, even quote some of the lines he spoke in several movies, yet the name keeps escaping your mind. It’s on the tip of your tongue and decides to stay there…
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Our memory comes from an ancient virus, neuroscientists say
This study is radically changing how we view the process of evolution.
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30 Minutes of Aerobic Exercise Supercharges Semantic Memory
When I published The Athlete’s Way in 2007, the idea that aerobic exercise could improve memory by triggering the production of BDNF—which is like Miracle-Gro for the brain and stimulates the birth of new neurons (neurogenesis) in the hippocampus—was a radically new concept.
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