memories

NEW YORK (AP) -- People learned better when a key part of their brains got mild zaps of electricity, a finding that may someday help Alzheimer's patients keep more of their memories....

(MedPage Today) -- A person's emotional response to an unsettling or traumatic event may actually be heightened by sleep, according to the results of a polysomnography study.

Broken sleep affects the ability to build memories, a study of mice suggests.

Can a pill eliminate stressful memories? New neuroscience research from Canada says yes.

(Elsevier) Wouldn't life be easy if everything happened as we anticipated? In reality, our brains are able to adapt to the unexpected using an inbuilt network that makes predictions about the world and monitors how those predictions turn out.

An area at the front of the brain, called the orbitofrontal cortex, plays a central role and studies have shown that patients with damage to this area confuse memories with reality and continue to anticipate events that are no longer likely to happen.

Like most of my memories of high school, this one is vague and indistinct, almost like part of someone else's life:

There's a new bonus to good blood sugar control: better recall.