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Dominating the market with their respected memory improvement software, Ultimate Memory ™ today announces new tips for keeping the brain healthy and in tip top shape. New York City, NY (PRWEB) May 21, 2012 Anyone would agree that brain health is vital to a great memory. Nobody understands this better than the team behind Ultimate Memory™, a world-class leading software designed to improve memory. Armed with a wealth of information to help people everywhere, the team today share some...

Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children normalizes disturbances in the neuronal network responsible for attention and executive function, according to a new study. "OSA is known to be associated with deficits in attention, cognition, and executive function," said lead author Ann Halbower, MD, Associate Professor at the Children's Hospital Sleep Center and University of Colorado Denver. "Our study is the first to show that treatment of OSA in children can reverse neuronal...

CHICAGO, May 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Freud's idea that dreams had meaning was revolutionary. Yet he did not scientifically prove his theories about the basic element of dreams, mental imagery. On Saturday, May 26th a poster session will be presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science in Chicago, Illinois: The Road You've Traveled: Validation Study of a Mental Imagery Task by Karen Giorgetti, Ph.D. Youngstown State University, Robert M. Roerich,...

As a basketball player scans he court, looking for an opening, his brain captures the position of other players for a few seconds, allowing him to choose the best path to the basket. Without those few seconds captured in memory, he would forget where each player is as his attention shifts. This visual short-term memory is like a "buffer" in a computer, allowing you to retain important pieces of information that will inform your future actions –whether it is on the basketball court, the...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Contrary to previous thought, promoting excess brain activity in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) can actually hinder rather than help memory performance. Amnestic mild cognitive impairment is a disorder associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, characterized by a person’s memory being worse than expected for their age. "In the case of early aMCI, it has been suggested that the increased hippocampal activation may serve a...

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 impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer's disease. The focus of the study was "excess brain activity" commonly associated with conditions that cause mild cognitive decline and memory loss, and are linked to an increased risk of...

Having studied customer feedback from their memory improvement software, Ultimate Memory™ today announces that a good memory is vital to climbing the career ladder quicker. New York City, NY (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 While many believe that a well-pressed suit, rehearsed answers and an early arrival are vital to winning job interviewer’s approval, the creators of Ultimate Memory™ today announce that the key to climbing the career ladder could be as simple as having a solid memory. The...

With new research attempting to discover a link between daily computer-based stimulation and the reduction of memory loss, Ultimate Memory™ today announces its full support. New York City, NY (PRWEB) May 04, 2012 Having developed computer software which is proven to improve memory, Ultimate Memory™ keeps its ears firmly to the ground in the search of related research. Following the commencement of a new study at the infamous Mayo Clinic, the team behind Ultimate Memory™ today...

Image Credit: Photos.com UCSF study offers path for studying learning, decision-making, PTSD UCSF scientists have identified patterns of brain activity in the rat brain that play a role in the formation and recall of memories and decision-making. The discovery, which builds on the team's previous findings, offers a path for studying learning, decision-making and post-traumatic stress syndrome. The researchers previously identified patterns of brain activity in the rat...

The ability to navigate using spatial cues was impaired in mice whose brains were minus a channel that delivers potassium — a finding that may have implications for humans with damage to the hippocampus, a brain structure critical to memory and learning, according to a Baylor University researcher. Mice missing the channel also showed diminished learning ability in an experiment dealing with fear conditioning, said Joaquin Lugo, Ph.D., the lead author in the study and an assistant...