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Neurobiological processes during puberty trigger sex differences in learni
Updated : 4 years ago IST
California [US], February 12 (ANI): Can biological changes during puberty affect learning and memory? New research from the University of California, Irvine has revealed that sex differences in learning and memory mechanisms are triggered by biological events occurring during puberty.
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New mechanism involved in learning and memory discovered by scientists
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], February 10 (ANI): FMRP, a protein whose loss caused fragile X syndrome, intellectual disability, and some forms of autism, has been shown to play a key role in brain functions. It includes basic understanding about learning and memory. It helps to regulate synaptic connection
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Novel approach by neuroscientists reverses amblyopia in animals
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 1 (ANI): By temporarily suspending retinal activity in the non-amblyopic eye of animal models, neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory restrengthened the visual response in the amblyopic eye, even at ages after the critical period when patc
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High sugar consumption effects child's brain development, study suggests
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 10 (ANI): New research led by the University of Georgia has shown in a rodent model that daily consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages during adolescence impairs performance on a learning and memory task during adulthood. The group further showed that changes in the b
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Tracking receptor proteins might reveal molecular basis of learning and me
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Nagoya [Japan], April 5 (ANI): During a recent study scientists from Japan used a novel two-step method of labelling neurotransmitter receptor proteins to track their localization efficiently.
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High consumption of sugar during childhood affects learning, memory: Study
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 3 (ANI): According to a new research, high consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages during adolescence impairs performance on learning and memory tasks during adulthood.
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Choosing to handwrite over keyboard use yields best learning, memory: Stud
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Trondheim [Norway], October 4 (ANI): When writing by hand, both children and adults learn more and remember better, suggest the results of several studies. However, now another study confirms the same: choosing to handwrite over keyboard use yields the best learning and memory.
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Specific gene variants may raise bipolar disorder risk
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 09 (ANI): A new research conducted at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT finds that the protein CPG2 is significantly less abundant in the brains of people with bipolar disorder (BD). The study further finds how specific mutations in the SYNE1 gen
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Study finds link between childhood obesity, school performance
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 24 (ANI): Being obese early in life has an impact on children's learning and memory, claimed a study.
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