Neuroscience
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
- 'senior Moments' Could Be An Early Warning Sign
They are often jokingly dismissed as ‘senior moments’, but older people’s concerns about their memory should perhaps be taken more seriously. Andrew Saykin and colleagues scanned the brains of 40 people who complained about their memory, but who...
- The Performance Of Impermanence
An excellent piece in tomorrow's New York Times:Memorizing Her Lines Is Out of the Question By DAVID CARR The New York Times Published: October 9, 2005 THE first time I met Caris Corfman after her one-woman show at the Flea Theater, she looked -...
- Neuropsychology Assessment Of Dementia: Early Detection
From an American Psychological Association (APA) press release on 25 September 2005:PSYCHOLOGISTS FIND MORE SENSITIVE TESTS FOR PREDICTING ALZHEIMER'S AS WELL AS SUBTLE CHANGES IN COGNITION Implicit-memory tests are stronger predictors than the common...
- Abstract Of The Day: Executive Task Performance And Functional Status In Elderly Persons
Rapp MA, Schnaider Beeri M, Schmeidler J, Sano M, Silverman JM, Haroutunian V. Relationship of neuropsychological performance to functional status in nursing home residents and community-dwelling older adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry....
- Imaging Alzheimer Disease
From a press release by the National Institute on Aging:National Institute on Aging, Industry Launch Partnership, 60 Million Dollar Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 10 a.m. ET Contact: Vicky Cahan...
Neuroscience
Neuropsychology of Attention and Distraction in Older Adults
From The Daily Californian:
Distractions Cause Memory Loss[ ... Read the full article ... ]
By OMEED ELBOUDWAREJ
Contributing Writer
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
UC Berkeley researchers have used brain imaging to confirm that, contrary to popular opinion, short-term memory loss common in older adults is not associated with a lack of focus on relevant information. Rather, short-term memory loss lies with an inability to filter out surrounding distractions.
Although previous studies have used neuropsychological tests to investigate how aging changes memory patterns, this study is the among the first of its kind to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess the impact of normal aging on the enhancement and suppression of sensory processing in the brain.
"The degree that older patients suppressed unnecessary information correlates with the degree that they remembered the relevant information," Adam Gazzaley, UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience, said.
"So what we are seeing is that they have a deficit in suppression and this seems to let in information that is irrelevant and cause interference with the information that they have to remember," Gazzaley said.
The findings suggest that drugs aimed at reducing the suppression deficit rather than trying to improve the memory may ultimately prove more effective.
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
- 'senior Moments' Could Be An Early Warning Sign
They are often jokingly dismissed as ‘senior moments’, but older people’s concerns about their memory should perhaps be taken more seriously. Andrew Saykin and colleagues scanned the brains of 40 people who complained about their memory, but who...
- The Performance Of Impermanence
An excellent piece in tomorrow's New York Times:Memorizing Her Lines Is Out of the Question By DAVID CARR The New York Times Published: October 9, 2005 THE first time I met Caris Corfman after her one-woman show at the Flea Theater, she looked -...
- Neuropsychology Assessment Of Dementia: Early Detection
From an American Psychological Association (APA) press release on 25 September 2005:PSYCHOLOGISTS FIND MORE SENSITIVE TESTS FOR PREDICTING ALZHEIMER'S AS WELL AS SUBTLE CHANGES IN COGNITION Implicit-memory tests are stronger predictors than the common...
- Abstract Of The Day: Executive Task Performance And Functional Status In Elderly Persons
Rapp MA, Schnaider Beeri M, Schmeidler J, Sano M, Silverman JM, Haroutunian V. Relationship of neuropsychological performance to functional status in nursing home residents and community-dwelling older adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry....
- Imaging Alzheimer Disease
From a press release by the National Institute on Aging:National Institute on Aging, Industry Launch Partnership, 60 Million Dollar Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 10 a.m. ET Contact: Vicky Cahan...