Memory Scoring: The Hippocampus

Intro As the population keeps aging, Alzheimer 's Disease (AD) is becoming a more significant public health issue. The prevalence of AD is expected to reach 34 million worldwide by 2025 (Mount 2006) and with the aging demographic, early diagnosis and treatment of AD is gaining importance. Cognitive decline and altered brain function related to AD has been shown to be present years before the clinical onset of the disorder through functional brain imaging techniques (Prvulovic 2011). Emphasis has

How does age affect the memory in people? It is a common belief today that as we get older our memory deteriorates, making us forget the simplest of things. Whether it is losing a set of keys or forgetting a family members name, these common problems show the fact that people 's memories over time continue to get worse. Sometimes their memory is even worse than they think it is. A persons memory begins to deteriorate as early as their twenties and tends to pick up speed as they reach their

their mutant mice so that they would produce a large amount of protein of the longest type possible in their brain. Particularly, they saw that these mice overexpressed the UBE3A protein levels especially in the excitatory neurons of the cortex and hippocampus. The researchers then compared their mutant mice with their normal mice to try and detect behavioral differences. What did the research team find? Mice overexpressing UBE3A seemed to be more anxious. The team noticed mice with more UBE3A seemed

Introduction Memory and its functions have always fascinated psychologists. As the first psychological laboratory was being opened in 1879, the first experiments on memory were being conducted by Hermann Ebbinghaus. Ebbinghaus developed the theory of the forgetting curve, a very early theory on the factors that influence memory and information retention (Schneider, 2015). Even since Ebbinghaus’ work at the dawn of psychology, countless studies have been conducted with the goal of understanding memory and

Medial Temporal Lobe Memory The medial temporal lobe (MTL) has long been known to be involved in different kinds of memory processes. The MTL is a region of the brain comprised of the hippocampus and the entorhinal, perirhinal and parahippocampal cortices.1 Lesions to the MTL results in anterograde amnesia. Patients lose both episodic memory, the ability to remember autobiographical events, as well as recognition memory2. Previous episodic memories are not generally lost with MTL lesions, with

how the development of PTSD are related to the mind and the brain. There are two brain structures that imaging has placed emphasis on, the amygdala and hippocampus. The amygdala is how we study fear and it is believed that this is involved in people with PTSD. The hippocampus is involved with the memory. There is evidence that there is some memory loss in people with PTSD. It has been discovered that neurochemicals may be involved in PTSD. Medicine can be used to reverse this neurochemical dysfunction

The 12 Brain Rules, 12 fundamental concepts that explain how the brain works and how to care for it, show how scientific investigations and experiments have unlocked keys to the brain. Five of the 12 Brain Rules, the ones involving sleep, stress, memory, attention, and vision as the dominant of the five senses, are very clearly supported by events in my life as well as expanded upon by new information in the the book, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

When we encounter a threat that we feel we do not have the resources to deal with, a stimulus known as stressors are released and as a result, makes us stressed. These stressors activate the stress-response system which sends a cascade of biological events thus releasing the stress hormones known as adrenaline and cortisol. The hormones cause our body to go into a ‘Flight or Fight’ mode and can affect us either positively or negatively. By going into flight or fight mode our blood pressure, breathing

TITLE: THE EFFECT OF AGE ON SHORT TERM MEMORY ABSTRACT: Age associated declines in cognitive processes are important to the understanding of the human mind. This study investigates the relationship between ageing and short term memory in particular, by first exploring current cognitive and neuroscientific research involving concepts such as short term/working memory, long term memory and ageing, and secondly, by means of a short term memory experiment involving verbal and numerical stimuli

and little jokes that would regain my attention every few minutes right before I checked out. With greater amounts of attention, I was able to remember things much easier and in much more elaborate forms. Messages that grasp attention are linked to memory, interest, and awareness. We often use earlier connection to predict where we should pay attention and the brain is constantly searching for events with