/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2437/all en /newsroom/mark-brandon Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:53:16 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 297093 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/muscle-discovery-aging-and-memory-plus-other-stories-341562 <p><img alt="muscle" src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/image/muscle-actin-myosins-web.jpg" style="width:100%" /></p> <h2>Muscle discovery may lead to better drugs</h2> <p>The smallest constituents of muscles, myosin and actin, may be targeted to contribute to more effective treatment methods against heart and muscle diseases, say a group of international researchers at Ă山ǿĽé and Linnaeus University.</p> Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:52:06 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288355 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/erasure-negative-memories-one-step-closer-reality-268751 <p>Scientists have known for some time that a memory is stored in the brain through changes in the strength of particular synapses, the structures that pass signals between neurons. However, how the change in strength persisted remained a mystery. Solving this mystery has important implications for remedying neurological and psychological disorders.</p> Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:16:14 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32013 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/improving-memory-magnets-267350 <p>The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily lives — without it we would not be able to understand a sentence, or do simple arithmetic. New research is shedding light on how sound memory works in the brain, and is even demonstrating a means to improve it.</p> Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:30:41 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26820 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/rapid-eye-movement-sleep-keystone-memory-formation-260845 <p><em><strong>By Bruno Geoffroy </strong></em></p> <p>For decades, scientists have fiercely debated whether rapid eye movement (REM) sleep – the phase where dreams appear – is directly involved in memory formation.</p> <p><span>Now, a study published in Science by researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (Ă山ǿĽé) and the University of Bern provides evidence that REM sleep does, indeed, play this role – at least in mice.</span></p> Fri, 13 May 2016 15:52:18 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 25827 at /newsroom /newsroom/daniel-levitin Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23740 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/what-your-memory-style-257328 <p>Why is it that some people have richly detailed recollection of past experiences (episodic memory), while others tend to remember just the facts without details (semantic memory)?</p> <p>A research team from the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences has shown for the first time that these different ways of experiencing the past are associated with distinct brain connectivity patterns that may be inherent to the individual and suggest a life-long “memory trait”.  </p> <p>The study was recently published online in the journal Cortex.</p> Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:35:51 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 25039 at /newsroom