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(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250320145042.htm) Novel memristors to overcome AI's 'catastrophic forgetting'
Mar 20th 2025, 14:50

Memristors consume extremely little power and behave similarly to brain cells. Researchers have now introduced novel memristive that offer significant advantages: they are more robust, function across a wider voltage range, and can operate in both analog and digital modes. Their unique properties could help address the problem of 'catastrophic forgetting,' where artificial neural networks abruptly forget previously learned information.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250320144819.htm) How family background can help lead to athletic success
Mar 20th 2025, 14:48

Americans have long believed that sports are one area in society that offers kids from all backgrounds the chance to succeed to the best of their abilities. But new research suggests that this belief is largely a myth, and that success in high school and college athletics often is influenced by race and gender, as well as socioeconomic status, including family wealth and education.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250320144619.htm) Why don't we remember being a baby? New study provides clues
Mar 20th 2025, 14:46

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don't hold onto these experiences because the part of the brain responsible for saving memories -- the hippocampus -- is still developing well into adolescence and just can't encode memories in our earliest years. But new research finds evidence that's not the case. In a study, researchers showed infants new images and later tested whether they remembered them. When an infant's hippocampus was more active upon seeing an image the first time, they were more likely to appear to recognize that image later. The findings indicate that memories can indeed be encoded in our brains in our first years of life. And the researchers are now looking into what happens to those memories over time.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319225249.htm) New cannabis formula will help epilepsy, multiple sclerosis sufferers
Mar 19th 2025, 22:52

Scientists have come up with an innovative solution to improve the effectiveness of cannabidiol to treat epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319225246.htm) Parts of the brain that are needed to remember words identified
Mar 19th 2025, 22:52

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319225201.htm) Anti-amyloid drug shows signs of preventing Alzheimer's dementia
Mar 19th 2025, 22:52

An experimental drug appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's-related dementia in people destined to develop the disease in their 30s, 40s or 50s, according to the results of a new study. The findings suggest -- for the first time in a clinical trial -- that early treatment to remove amyloid plaques from the brain many years before symptoms arise can delay the onset of Alzheimer's dementia.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319172910.htm) Sleepier during the day? For some older people, it's linked to twice the dementia risk
Mar 19th 2025, 17:29

For women in their 80s, experiencing increasing sleepiness during the day over a five-year period is associated with double the risk of developing dementia during that time, according to a new study. The study does not prove that daytime sleepiness causes dementia; it only shows an association.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319143414.htm) AI technology improves Parkinson's diagnoses
Mar 19th 2025, 14:34

AI-driven software is 96% accurate at diagnosing Parkinson's.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319143253.htm) Groundbreaking AI tool generates 3D map of the brain
Mar 19th 2025, 14:32

A new AI tool builds sophisticated map of mouse brains.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319143200.htm) Can online games be an effective intervention to help adolescents reduce substance abuse?
Mar 19th 2025, 14:32

For adolescents struggling with substance abuse, traditional in-person interventions such as counseling are not always effective, and rural areas often lack access to these services. A researcher is thinking outside the box, aiming to help game designers develop fun, digital games that make ditching bad habits easier by meeting adolescents where they already are: online.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319143026.htm) Machine learning aids in detection of 'brain tsunamis'
Mar 19th 2025, 14:30

Scientists have recently detailed how automation and machine learning can aid clinicians treating patients with spreading depolarizations, sometimes referred to as 'brain tsunamis.'

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319143013.htm) Brain imaging reveals surprises about learning
Mar 19th 2025, 14:30

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, researchers are shedding light on the holy grail of neuroscience: the mechanics of how we learn. The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the boundaries of new knowledge.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250319142841.htm) Classifying childhood brain cancers by immune response may improve diagnostics and treatments
Mar 19th 2025, 14:28

The new approach establishes an opportunity to harness the success of immunotherapies that revolutionized the treatment of childhood leukemias for childhood brain cancers.

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Michael Reeder LCPC
Baltimore, MD

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