Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts

Wednesday 1 May 2019

Music Helps To Restore Memory

Music Helps To Restore Memory.
You conscious those popular songs that you just can't get out of your head? A imaginative study suggests they have the power to trigger strong memories, many years later, in colonize with brain damage. The small study suggests that songs instill themselves irrevocably into the mind and may help reach people who have trouble remembering the past. It's not unblocked whether the study results will lead to improved treatments for patients with brain damage.

But they do suggest new insight into how people process and remember music. "This is the first study to show that music can oust to mind personal memories in people with severe brain injuries in the same way that it does in bracing people," said study lead author Amee Baird, a clinical neuropsychologist. "This means that music may be worthwhile to use as a memory aid for people who have difficulty remembering personal memories from their late after brain injury".

Baird, who works at Hunter Brain Injury Service in Newcastle, Australia, said she was inspired to embark upon the study by a man who was severely injured in a motorcycle accident and couldn't think back on much of his life. "I was interested to see if music could help him bring to mind some of his personal memories. The houseboy became one of the five patients - four men, one woman - who took share in the study.

One of the others was also injured in a motorcycle accident, and a third was hurt in a fall. The settled two suffered damage from lack of oxygen to the brain due to cardiac arrest, in one case, and an attempted suicide in the other. Two of the patients were in their mid-20s. The others were 34, 42 and 60. All had reminiscence problems. Baird played loads one songs of the year for 1961 to 2010 as ranked by Billboard munitions dump in the United States.

Friday 17 March 2017

The Impact Of Hormones On The Memories Of Mother

The Impact Of Hormones On The Memories Of Mother.
A scrutiny involving men and their mothers suggests a uncharted function for the "love hormone" oxytocin in mortal behavior. Grown men who inhaled a synthetic form of oxytocin, a not unexpectedly occurring chemical, recalled intensified fond memories of their mothers if, indeed, Mom was all that caring. But if men initially reported less close-fisted relationships with Mom, oxytocin seemed to boost them to dwell on the negative.

These findings, published online Nov 29, 2010 in the fortnightly Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, appear to contradict public perception about oxytocin's beneficial effects, the researchers say. "There's a trendy idea that oxytocin has these ubiquitous positive effects on community interactions, but this suggests that it depends on the person to whom it's given and the context in which it's given," said think over lead author Jennifer Bartz. "It's not this universal attachment panacea".

Oxytocin, which is produced in over-abundance when a mother breast-feeds her baby, is known as the "bonding" hormone and may actually have therapeutic applications. One muse about found that people with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome were better able to "catch" social cues after inhaling the hormone. Oxytocin has also been linked to trust, empathy and generosity, but may also atom the less attractive qualities of jealousy and gloating.

By fostering attachment, oxytocin is considered essential to survival of an individual, and also to survival of the species. "It's what allows the infant to persist to maturity and to reproduce by ensuring the caregiver stays fusty to the infant and provides nurturance and support to an otherwise defenseless infant," explained Bartz, assistant professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

Tuesday 28 April 2015

Sleep, Learning And Memory

Sleep, Learning And Memory.
Babies alter and preserve memories during those many naps they gather during the day, a new study suggests. "We discovered that sleeping shortly after erudition helps infants to retain memories over extended periods of time," said study maker Sabine Seehagen, a child and adolescent psychology researcher with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. "In both of our experiments, only those infants who took an extended catch for at least half an hour within four hours after lore remembered the information". The study doesn't definitively confirm that the naps themselves advise the memories stick, but the researchers believe that is happening.

And "While people might assume that infants acquire knowledge best when they are wide awake, our findings suggest that the time just before infants go down for sleep can be a particularly valuable culture opportunity". Scientists have long linked more sleep to better memory, but it's been unclear what happens when babies throw away a significant amount of time sleeping. In the new study, researchers launched two experiments. In each one, babies venerable 6 months or 12 months were taught how to take away mittens from animal puppets.