Blog Entries tagged 'Brain'

Sleep Learning 102

Doctor@JohnLTurner.com — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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Erlier, I posted information about how neurons of the hippocampus interact with cortical neurons during sleep to strengthen memory. For the past 8 years, I have been experimenting with nightly us of an iPOD (then the iTuch and now the great Droid), listening not to music, but to audio books from topic in astronomy, to C2C, consciusness, physics and more!

But look, it may be working: Brain listens, learns while we sleep

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ZIP zaps Memory - In Rats

Doctor@JohnLTurner.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory
NYT April 5, 2009

More information on memory appeared yesterday in the New York Times. It has been known that propranolol may reduce or eliminate certain memories and perhaps this drug, commonly used to treat hypertension, familiar tremor and other disorders could conceivably be used in a critical care setting to ease the impact of trauma, and other conditions which could lead to painful recalled memor [...]