Archive for March, 2010

Sleeping And your memory

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

A new U.S. study showed that sleep reduces the errors that may fall out of memory. The magazine quoted “Learning and Memory” results of a study by the University of Michigan, U.S., has shown that sleep reduces the errors that may fall out of memory when the young and the elderly. According to the Kimberley Fein, which is an associate professor of psychology, that the practical applications of these findings include all of the students who choose the wrong answer in the exam to the elderly who are mistaken in their medicines.

She added “This study suggests that after sleeping able to distinguish the erroneous impressions in the memory.” Previous studies have confirmed that sleep improves memory, but this new study, dealing with errors in memory. The study included a group of university students who have different levels of sleep, and listened to a group of words, and after 12 hours, heard the words separately and asked them to identify any of the words they heard before. It was found that students who were sleeping well, had problems with memory less, and chose the minimum number of words wrong.

Strong Teeth… Strong Memory

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

To maintain the power of memory and dementia, and removal of one recent study found that the remedy lies in the prevention of gum disease by cleaning teeth regularly and pass the thread Hariri, including the removal of the waste, and thus can maintain the power of memory and dementia away as we age.

Researchers have concluded that the lack of dental care and hygiene increases the risk of Alzheimer’s, heart disease and diabetes. The Daily Mail reported that the study which included adults in the sixty years of age and older, found that those who suffer from gum disease are having trouble remembering things after a period of time. As it turns out that adults who suffer from serious diseases of the gums in the calculations fail more than others, nearly doubled, to 5.7% of them failed in the tasks related to memory, and 22.1% were not able to solve problems related to calculation subtracting numbers.