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A Parent’s Nurturing Results In Larger Hippocampus In Children

February 1, 2012
A recent study by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, states that children whose mothers showed them love and affection from the very beginning have brains with a larger ...

Hippocampus Plays Bigger Memory Role Than Previously Thought

November 3, 2011
Human memory has historically defied precise scientific description, its biological functions broadly but imperfectly defined in psychological terms. In a pair of papers published in the November 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of California, San Diego report a new methodology that more deeply parses ...

Hippocampus supports both recollection and familiarity memories

November 2, 2011
Human memory has historically defied precise scientific description, its biological functions broadly but imperfectly defined in psychological terms. In a pair of papers published in the November 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of California, San Diego report a new methodology that more deeply parses ...

Hippocampus plays bigger memory role than previously thought

November 2, 2011
Human memory has historically defied precise scientific description, its biological functions broadly but imperfectly defined in psychological terms. In a pair of papers published in the November 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of California, San Diego report a new methodology that more deeply parses ...

Hippocampus plays bigger memory role than previously thought

November 1, 2011
(University of California - San Diego) In a pair of papers published in the Nov. 2 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, report a new methodology that more deeply parses how and where certain types of memories are processed in the brain, ...

X-Linked Mental Retardation Protein Is Found To Mediate Synaptic Plasticity In Hippocampus

October 21, 2011
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved part of a puzzle concerning the relationship between changes in the strength of synapses - the tiny gaps across which nerve cells in the brain communicate - and dysfunctions in neural circuits that have been linked with drug addiction, mental retardation ...

X-linked mental retardation protein is found to mediate synaptic plasticity in hippocampus

October 19, 2011
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved part of a puzzle concerning the relationship between changes in the strength of synapses – the tiny gaps across which nerve cells in the brain communicate – and dysfunctions in neural circuits that have been linked with drug addiction, mental retardation ...

X-linked mental retardation protein is found to mediate synaptic plasticity in hippocampus

October 19, 2011
Cold Spring Harbor, NY Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved part of a puzzle concerning the relationship between changes in the strength of synapses the tiny gaps across which nerve cells in the brain communicate and dysfunctions in neural circuits that have been linked ...

X-linked mental retardation protein is found to mediate synaptic plasticity in hippocampus

October 19, 2011
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Scientists at CSHL have solved part of a puzzle concerning the relationship between changes in the strength of synapses -- the tiny gaps across which nerve cells in the brain communicate -- and dysfunctions in neural circuits that have been linked with drug addiction, mental retardation ...

Hippocampus plays an active role in suppressing pain during times of stress

October 13, 2011
New findings about how the brain functions to suppress pain have been published in the leading journal Pain, by NUI Galway researchers. For the first time, it has been shown that the hippocampus of the brain, which is usually associated with memory, has an active role to play in suppressing ...

New Findings Concerning Function Of The Hippocampus

October 7, 2011
A research team from Berlin, Munich and Haifa has presented new findings concerning the function of the hippocampus, a region of the brain that is important for memory formation. The researchers investigated cellular mechanisms of high-frequency rhythms, which play a key role in memory processes, and possibly also in various ...

What Happens When Damage To The Hippocampus Occurs Very Early In Life?

August 15, 2011
Memory is not a single process but is made up of several sub-processes relying on different areas of the brain. Episodic memory, the ability to remember specific events such as what you did yesterday, is known to be vulnerable to brain damage involving the hippocampus...