12-08-22 People with Parkinson's disease performed markedly better on a test of working memory after a night's sleep, and sleep disorders can interfere with that benefit, researchers have shown. While the classic symptoms of Parkinson's disease include tremo...

12-08-20 Researchers have long chronicled what goes wrong in the brains of older people with dementia. But Northwestern Medicine researcher Emily Rogalski wondered what goes right in the brains of the elderly who still have terrific memories. And, do those p...

12-07-11 A clinical trial of an Alzheimer's disease treatment developed at MIT has found that the nutrient cocktail can improve memory in patients with early Alzheimer's. The results confirm and expand the findings of an earlier trial of the nutritional supp...

12-06-25 Want to nail that tune that you've practiced and practiced? Maybe you should take a nap with the same melody playing during your sleep, new provocative（刺激的） Northwestern University research suggests. The research grows out of exciting existing...

12-05-22 The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient（周围的） conditions -- opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory -- has been developed by researchers at UCL. Resistive RAM (or 'ReRAM') memory c...

12-05-11 A study led by a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist and published in the May 10 issue of the journal Neuron suggests a potential new therapeutic approach for improving memory and interrupting disease progression in patients with a form of cognitive impair...

12-04-20 A team of researchers from Taiwan and the University of California, Berkeley, has harnessed nanodots to create a new electronic memory technology that can write and erase data 10-100 times faster than today's mainstream charge-storage memory product...

12-03-31 It turns out that nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all, as a new study has shown that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is the best way to remember it. 看来在课堂上打瞌睡也许并不是坏事。一项新研究显示，学完新知...

12-03-26 Children whose minds wander might have sharper brains, research suggests. 研究显示，那些爱走神的孩子也许脑子更灵活。 A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more working memory, giving them the ability to hold a lot...

12-03-22 The ' bathtub effect' is perhaps the most commonly reported finding in the literature on memory for words. People remember the beginnings and ends of words better than the middles, as if the word were a person lying in a bathtub, with their head out...