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Study finds link between particular cognitive deficits, inflammatory activ
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
A team of researchers found a connection between particular cognitive deficits and the inflammatory activity in the body caused by rheumatoid arthritis. These include a decline in working memory, inhibition, and focus as well as memory, abstract thought, and visuospatial skills.
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Children's brains are altered by the time they spent on electronic devices
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The study discovered that screen usage causes alterations in the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, which is the foundation of executive skills including working memory and the ability to plan or respond flexibly to situations.
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Researchers reveal how older adults gets easily distracted
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
A University of California, Riverside study found that when older persons are engaged in a physically demanding job, such as driving a car or carrying groceries, they are more prone than younger ones to be distracted by objects unrelated to the task at hand.
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Researchers discover rhythmic brain activity helps to maintain temporary m
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to a new study, rhythmic brain activity is essential for temporarily maintaining critical information in memory. Brain rhythms--or patterns of neural activity--organize the bursts of activity in the brain that preserve short-term connections, according to researchers from the Del M
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Laser therapy is beneficial in treating short-term memory problems: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Scientists at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Beijing Normal University in China, demonstrated that the therapy, which is non-invasive, could improve short-term, or working memory in people by up to 25 per cent.
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Research: Laser therapy helps improve short term memory problems
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Laser light therapy has been shown to be effective in improving short-term memory in a study published in Science Advances. Scientists at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Beijing Normal University in China, demonstrated that the therapy, which is non-invasive, could improve short-t
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Study finds laser therapy effective for improving short term memory proble
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers revealed how laser therapy benefit in improving short-term memory.
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Excess physical activity, less screen time linked to better function in to
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"Executive function underlies your ability to engage in goal-directed behaviors," said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign kinesiology and community health professor Naiman Khan, who led the study with graduate student Arden McMath and food science and human nutrition professor Sharon Do
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Study finds more physical activity, less screen time linked to better exec
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 19 (ANI): A new study found that 24-month-old children who spent less than 60 minutes looking at screens each day and those who engaged in at least 60 minutes of daily physical activity had better executive function than their peers. Executive function includes the a
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Study: Working memory is reliant on cross-brain interactions
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 28 (ANI): Neuroscientists have investigated the reciprocal interactions between two brain regions that represent visual working memory in mice. The team found that communication between these two loci of working memory, parietal cortex and premotor cortex, was co-depend
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Research reveals working memory depends on cross-brain interactions
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL examined the reciprocal relationships between two brain areas that encode visual working memory in mice.
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Researchers discover format of working memory
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 9 (ANI): Researchers have made a finding that enhances our understanding of how visual memories are stored.
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