September 30th, 2010 by Stand Team

Stop and think for a moment. What remember your breakfast this morning? a part of your brain to recalls the smell of coffee, while another recalls the smile on your partner while walking to the door. How does the brain, such as weaves these fragments and how the leads back to the conscious life?

The researchers led by the Prof Itzhak Fried, a neurosurgeon at the University of Tel Aviv Sackler of the Faculty of Medicine, have demonstrated what they have always suspected scientists, that neurons are excited during an experience of the same way that when we recall that experience.

This finding, reported in the prestigious Science magazine, gives researchers a clearer picture of how the memory and the recall has important implications for understanding of the dementias like Alzheimer’s Disease, in which fragments of memory of the puzzle seem disintegrate over time.

“This is a rare opportunity to see how neurons that are the basic units of the cognition, working during the event to remember,” said the Prof Fried of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where it is also a professor.

“This is unique because we are able to look just the cells in the brain, when people spontaneously recall something inside of his memory, without any external stimulation”.

The investigation was difficult and could only be performed on human subjects, as other animals lack the capacity to verbalize their memories. Read the rest of this entry »

January 13th, 2009 by Stand Team

Most of us belong to this type of people who are “connected” throughout the day. Among the work, cellular and home computer, there are days in which we spent the majority of our time lost on the Internet.

Although this is not necessarily negative, since it lost in the web keeps our brain asset, it is not entirely positive be for hours and hours lost out there.

That is why, as much as we like losing to discover interesting things on the Internet, it is important to know away from it, and occupy our time in other ways.

*A good way to do this is setting hours in which is forbidden to use internet. For example, then leaving work you cannot walk to a computer.

*Another way is by limits. We all have that friend who is connected all the time, using a laptop, iPhone or whatever feels the need to be always online. Many times this is not really necessary, but they are only distractions that affect the facts of the real life around it. An alternative is fixed at an only time of day to respond mails or be on the web.

*Saves your laptop. Save the laptop in the closet, or where it is, but that comes out of your view is a good idea. And you will be moving away the temptation to be online all the time and you can concentrate on other things. Read the rest of this entry »