Memory Improvement

Cell Phone Ringtones Affect Memory
by eNotAlone.com
According to a new psychological study, just the ring of a cellular phone in some circumstances is enough to pose a dangerous distraction for people, especially in classrooms when students hear a familiar melody as a ringtone.

Weather Affects Our Memory And Brain Ability
by eNotAlone.com
According to psychologists from Australia, bad and gloomy weather is good for our brain and memory, whereas sunny and bright days are good just for our soul. An international team has carried out their research and discovered that while dark and rainy day

Why Is It So Difficult To Remember A Good Joke?
by eNotAlone.com
Have you ever noticed that it is much easier to remember bad jokes, rather than good and funny ones? Well, the scientists now claim that they finally have unraveled the reason why it happens so.

Doodling - Good For Our Memory
by eNotAlone.com
British researchers found that doodling actually helps our memory and improves concentration. While it seems that people who doodle are not paying attention to a boring phone conversation or a lecture, the science proves otherwise.

Mediterranen Diet Is Beneficial For Memory
by eNotAlone.com
People who eat Mediterranean-style diet, which is rich in fish, olive oil, vegetables, legumes, fruits, cereals, and unsaturated fatty acids, have much less chance to develop mild cognitive impairment, sometimes called as borderline dementia

Health Benefits of Wine, Tea and Chocolate
by eNotAlone.com
All those who consume wine, tea and chocolate in moderate amounts, and on a regular basis, significantly improve their health, in particular brain power and memory, and lower predominance of poor cognitive performance, according to a recent research.

But First (And Before I Forget) ...
Where Did I Leave My Glasses?: The What, When, and Why of Normal Memory Loss
by Martha Weinman Lear
It is a comfort - NOT total, but I'll take whatever I can get - to know that we're all in this together, complaining more about remembering less. I say all advisedly. It does not mean everyone. It means us: those of us who keep forgetting people's names

The Analysis of Mind
by Bertrand Russell
Memory, which we are to consider to-day, introduces us to knowledge in one of its forms. The analysis of knowledge will occupy us until the end of the thirteenth lecture, and is the most difficult part of our whole enterprise.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
From time to time there have been individuals, principally children, who gave wonderful exhibitions of memory, some for dates, others for names, and some for rapid mental calculation.

The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology For Beginners
by William Henry Pyle
In a previous chapter, brief mention was made of the difference between perceptions and ideas. This distinction must now be enlarged upon and made clearer. Perceptions arise out of our sensory life. We see things when these things are before our eyes.

Talks To Teachers On Psychology: And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals
by William James
We are following a somewhat arbitrary order. Since each and every faculty we possess is either in whole or in part a resultant of the play of our associations, it would have been as natural, after treating of association, to treat of memory as to treat

How to Use Your Mind
by Harry D. Kitson, Ph.D.
Of all the mental operations employed by the student, memory is probably the one in which the greatest inefficiency is manifested. Though we often fail to realize it, much of our life is taken up with memorizing. Every time we make use of past experience,

Remembering Dreams
When the Road Turns: Inspirational Stories About People with MS
by Margot Russell
Each week in the United States 200 people are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, adding exponentially to the 350,000 people nationwide and the 2.5 million people worldwide with MS.

Alcohol, Memory Blackouts and the Brain
by National Institute of Health
Alcohol primarily interferes with the ability to form new long-term memories, leaving intact previously established long-term memories and the ability to keep new information active in memory for brief periods.

Aging and Memory Loss
by National Institute on Aging
We've all forgotten a name, where we put our keys, or if we locked the front door. It's normal to forget things once in a while. However, forgetting how to make change, use the telephone, or find your way home may be signs of a more serious memory problem

Older Adults: Forgetfulness
by National Institute on Aging
Many older people worry about becoming more forgetful. They think forgetfulness is the first sign of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the past, memory loss and confusion were considered a normal part of aging.

Multi-Infarct Dementia
by National Institute on Aging
Serious forgetfulness, mood swings, and other behavioral changes are not a normal part of aging. They may be caused by poor diet, lack of sleep, or too many medicines, for example. Feelings of loneliness, boredom, or depression also can cause forgetfulnes

Multiple Sclerosis : Importance of Early Treatment
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
People who have frequent relapses or whose functioning is severely affected may willingly take one of the injectable drugs approved to treat MS. When symptoms are mild, however, some people are reluctant to go on medication, says Bourdette.

Multiple Sclerosis Treatment
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The most recently approved MS drug, Tysabri (natalizumab), was licensed by the FDA in November 2004 to reduce the frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS) attacks in people with relapsing forms of MS.

Multiple Sclerosis : Diagnosing, Highly Variable
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
MS is 'notoriously difficult to diagnose,' says Reingold. There is no single test to detect it. Until recently, to meet the diagnostic criteria for MS, a person must have had two separate attacks at least a month apart and in different parts of the body.