Your Sleeping Brain and Circadian Rhythms
Our brain doesn’t work on Eastern Standard or Mountain Standard time, it has a clock all it’s own…
Inherited Cell Memories
Organ transplant recipients have often reported there have been changes in their taste, ideas and even personality after…
What is Memory?
If you use the Webster’s diction definition of memory, it is “the mental capacity or faculty of retaining…
Blood Test May Show Predisposition to Alzheimer’s
What would you say if you could find out whether you have a predisposition to Alzheimer’s (AD) by…
Gene To Increase Brainpower Found
An amazing discovery, conducted by researchers at MIT and published in the journal Nature indicates a gene has…
Depression Causes Inability to Concentrate
The hippocampus of the brain is responsible for short-term memory. When a person is depressed the hormone cortisol…
Variation in PCS May Explain Memory Ability
In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Cambridge University tested 53 volunteers and noticed…
Memory Retention During Violent and Humorous Viewing
Research was conducted at Pacific Union College to find out if memory retention was increased or decreased during…
Do IQ Tests Really Test Your Intelligence?
Is intelligence something we are born with, do you improve your IQ when you improve our memory, or…
Brain Pacemakers for Treatment of Alzheimer’s
Most of us have heard about pacemakers being implanted in coronary patients to regulate their heart’s rhythm, but…
Reasons to Ditch the Sleep Meds
Americans filled more than 56 million prescriptions in 2008 for sleeping pills, and another $600 million was spent…
Memory’s Family Tree
Who was your English teacher in 12th grade? Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb? How do you ride…