Memory
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
New Study Raises Concerns about Current Test-Taking Requirements
There’s no doubt that today students are under intense pressure to perform academically, but at what cost? The Institute of HeartMath and Claremont Graduate University released a new study that depicts the high levels of anxiety students are shouldering due to the pressure to excel intellectually. Nearly two-thirds of the high school students who participated in the study reported being affected by test anxiety. The study underscores the detrimental impact of test anxiety on academic performance. Based on their findings, researchers say that students’ high levels of anxiety may jeopardize NCLB assessment validity and could be compromising testing results.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Old Memory is Key Source of Chronic Pain
Why do so many people continue to suffer from life-altering, chronic pain long after their injuries have actually healed? The definitive answer—and an effective treatment—has long eluded scientists. Traditional analgesic drugs, such as aspirin and morphine derivatives, haven’t worked very well. A Northwestern University researcher has found a key source of chronic pain appears to be an old memory trace that essentially gets stuck in the prefrontal cortex, the site of emotion and learning. The brain seems to remember the injury as if it were fresh and can’t forget it.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Sunday, April 01, 2007
In Our Messy, Reptilian Brains
Let others rhapsodize about the elegant design and astounding complexity of the human brain—the most complicated, most sophisticated entity in the known universe, as they say. David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, doesn’t see it that way. To him, the brain is a “cobbled-together mess.”
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Stress may ‘damage child brains’
US scientists discovered a brain structure involved with memory and emotion had shrunk in children with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A withered hippocampus may make a child less able to deal with stress and raise anxiety, Pediatrics journal reports. The children in the study also had higher blood levels of a stress hormone called cortisol, which has been shown to kill hippocampal cells in animals. This could set up a vicious cycle, where high cortisol causes more hippocampal damage, which in turn raises the anxiety.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
The Flavor Of Memories
Two crucial facts that neurologists have come to understand in the past few years about the workings of human memory--facts that have important implications for the treatment of a variety of mental disorders, from post-traumatic stress to obsessive-compulsive disorder. The first is that, despite its movie-like clarity, my memory of J.F.K.’s assassination is almost certainly wrong in some details, and maybe even some significant ones. That’s because I’m not simply calling up the original memory laid down in November 1963. I’m recalling the last time I thought about it. Each time we retrieve and re-store a memory, it can be subtly altered by all sorts of factors. What goes back into our brains is like the new version of a text document, overwriting the old. The second fact: memory and emotion are intimately linked biochemically, with hormones like adrenaline actively involved in forming the neurological patterns we call memories.
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
Aiming for the Brain’s Sweet Spot
As Congress prepares to debate whether to renew the No Child Left Behind Act, its members might do well to consider the biology of boredom, frazzle and the brain’s sweet spot for performance. Or they may inadvertently widen the gap between high- and low-achieving students.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
NYU study shows those closer to World Trade Center have more vivid memories when recalling 9/11
Those close to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 have, on average, more vivid memories of the terrorist attacks than do those who were in other parts of New York City on that day, according to a study by researchers at New York University. The results, reported in the most recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicate personal involvement may be important in engaging the amygdala when recalling 9/11 events. The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped brain structure known to mediate emotion’s influence on memory.
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Seat of Emotions in Brain May Also Contribute to Higher Cognition
The amygdala is a central processing station in the brain for emotions, but Yale researchers report that the amygdala also plays a role in working memory, a higher cognitive function critical for reasoning and problem solving. In two different functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies with a total of 74 participants, individual differences in amygdala activity predicted behavioral performance on a working memory task, according to the report in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
An Independent Study Demonstrates that HeartMath® Stress Reduction Effectively Improve Memory
The Institute HeartMath®, a non profit research and education organization, is known worldwide for its research on the physiology of and relationship between the heart, stress, and emotions. HeartMath, located in Boulder Creek, California, disclosed the results of this recent study which looked at the effects of stress relief tools that build heart coherence on the quality of memory.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
When your body breaks down, it may be from stress
When Cathy Perry’s blood pressure and cholesterol began climbing and her waist expanded by a few inches, she blamed middle age. When her memory became fuzzy and she frequently forgot familiar names and phone numbers, she attributed it to impending menopause. And when she seemed to catch every cold and virus that went around, she pointed to her two kids. Her doctor, however, said just one culprit could be responsible for many of her symptoms: stress.
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Sunday, May 28, 2006
A cure for Stress?
It started as a hi-tech relaxation technique for burnt-out executives. Now everyone from schoolchildren to sports stars are discovering the seemingly miraculous benefits of HeartMath.
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Thursday, February 09, 2006
Scientists Predict What You’ll Think of Next
To recall memories, your brain travels back in time via the ultimate Google search, according to a new study in which scientists found they can monitor the activity and actually predict what you’ll think of next. The work bolsters the validity of a longstanding hypothesis that the human brain takes itself back to the state it was in when a memory was first formed.
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Menopause Memory Loss or Stress?
Menopausal women increasingly complain of memory loss. Many fear the memory loss is a sign of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center in N.Y., however, believe the memory loss is more likely due to a hectic lifestyle than any particular disease. The team of researchers discovered a link between complaints of forgetfulness and the way middle-aged women, who also experience high stress levels, “encode” new information.
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Emotions Make the Memory Last - More Detail, Easier Recollection With Emotional Memories
Ever wonder why some memories can stay vivid for years while others fade with time? The answer is emotion. When the emotions are aroused, the brain takes note. It stores as much detail as possible about the emotion-filled event, wiring it for quick recall. That emotion-charged memory can be summoned at a moment’s notice, even after a long time has passed. That’s true for positive and negative emotions.