Study Addresses Major Outstanding Question in Theoretical Models of Memory [Neuroscience, February 2022]

Title:

Study Addresses Major Outstanding Question in Theoretical Models of Memory  

 

Published:  

Neuroscience, 15 February 2022 

https://neurosciencenews.com/memory-model-20074/  

 

From the article:  

A research team led by faculty members at Wayne State University has discovered that communication between two key memory regions in the brain determines how what we experience becomes part of what we remember, and as these regions mature, the precise ways by which they interact make us better at forming lasting memories.  

 

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Washington University in St. Louis, USA - 17-year study of children associates poverty with smaller, slower-growing subcortical regions

Title:

17-year study of children associates poverty with smaller, slower-growing subcortical regions

 

Source:

Washington University in St. Louis

 

Published:

ScienceDaily, 11 August 2021

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210811175218.htm

 

From the article:

Children in poverty are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers. Plenty of past research has looked into the physical effects of childhood poverty, or documented mental health disparities between socioeconomic classes. But Deanna Barch, chair and professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and her colleague Joan Luby, MD, the Samuel and Mae S. Ludwig Professor of Child Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, wanted to look at a suite of outcomes to determine whether poverty continues to affect people as they enter adulthood.