A drug intended for diabetes appears to restore memory in brain cells affected by Alzheimer's disease, researchers say. Medical researchers at the University of Alberta led by Jack Jhamandas took brain tissue from animal models with Alzheimer's disease and tested the tissue in the lab, looking specifically at the cells' memory capacity. ...
06:16 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Smoking 'rots' the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to a new study. Researchers from the King's College London in brain tests and analysis of health and lifestyle data of a group of over-50s found that smoking affects the brain negatively even more than high blood pressure and obesity. ...
12:46 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Islamabad: The execution of Ajmal Amir Kasab has revived the memory of a senseless but well-planned act of mass murder that brought Pakistan and India to the brink of war, leading Pakistani daily Dawn said on Thursday. Four years after the Mumbai terror attack, many questions still remain unanswered, the Dawn said in an editorial. Pakistani national Kasab, the sole surviving member of a 10-member terrorist group that attacked Mumbai...
01:03 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Jajpur: Investigation into the sale of a baby boy by his mother in Odisha's Jajpur district has revealed curious details " the money was used to buy a mobile phone and a pair of jeans among other things. "Rakhi Patra of Mundamala village who sold her 17-month-old son for Rs 5000 purchased a new mobile phone, a pair of jeans, few new tops (to go with the jeans) and memory...
11:50 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde at a recent function in Pune said that the public memory was short and it won't be long before it forgot the coal controversy too, just like the Bofors scam. ...
10:56 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had said that the public memory is short and it would soon forget the coal scam, like the Bofors. ...
08:04 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday invited ire from the Opposition for his remark that the coal controversy, like the Bofors scam, will soon be forgotten. "Earlier the Bofors was a talking point. People forgot about it. Now it is coal. This too will be forgotten," Shinde said in a lighter vein at a function in Pune on Saturday. "Once hands are washed off coal, they...
09:51 AM, Sep 16, 2012
London: Scientists have discovered that a tiny particle within a protein allowed humans to become the most intelligent creatures on the planet. Researchers from the University of Colorado found that the protein domain issue known as DUF1220 holds the key to understanding why our brains are so much bigger and more complex than any other animal, the Daily Mail reported. DUF1220 is a protein domain of unknown function that shows...
04:33 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Hubli: Injured soldiers asked us not to look back and move on as they took their last breath. We just crossed them over because duty was important, shared Shivareddi B Jagapur of Nagavi village in Gadag district, who was injured during Kargil war and is now serving in New Delhi. As the nation observes Kargil Day on Thursday to mark Indias victory over Pakistan during the 1999 war, Express spoke...
04:26 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Bangalore: SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, announced a suite of new retail products that includes four new USB flash drives and a high-performance memory card. "The suite of products includes SanDisk's fastest, thinnest and highest-capacity USB flash drives, as well as the world's fastest memory card for smartphones and tablets", the company said in a statement. "The new USB drives offer consumers the storage they...
10:11 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Bangalore: Meet a woman who started an online portal that attempts to archive our history using photographs. From Delhi University's first girl rock band 'Mad Hatter' to the bell-bottoms and Rajdoot bikes of the 70's and the stories of a Miss India winner who eventually beat Bollywood star Zeenat Aman, Indian Memory Project is an online portal that attempts to archive our history using photographs that can speak a thousand...
10:02 AM, Jun 13, 2012
London: A new kind of memory chip made from silicon could be a hundred times faster than standard Flash memory chips, British scientists say. Researchers at the University College London reported in the Journal of Applied Physics that they have developed a new kind of Resistive RAM (ReRAM) memory chip. The chip is based on materials whose electrical resistance changes when a voltage is applied, and they "remember" this change...
10:12 AM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Five persons, including three employees of private firms involved in maintenance work, were on Saturday arrested by Customs officials at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in New Delhi for allegedly smuggling memory cards worth over Rs one crore in two separate cases. Acting on an intelligence input, Air Customs officials arrested Ravi Kumar, a resident of Sonepat in Haryana, with 32,030 memory cards of 2GB and 8GB with...
06:14 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: A man was arrested on Tuesday at the Indira Gandhi International airport for allegedly smuggling memory cards and other electronics goods worth over Rs 26 lakh by Customs officials. Kamal, a Delhi resident, was carrying 1,600 Sony memory cards for Cybershot cameras, 3,200 game processors and other electronic items worth Rs 26.62 lakh, they said. The passenger had arrived from Guangzhou, China. "While passing through Green Channel, on...
03:26 PM, May 08, 2012
Finally, I have my MP3 player. Buying an MP3 player is a no big deal, but it becomes when you look out for the best ...
03:27 PM, Mar 29, 2012
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd... From Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard In screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's 2004 romantic fantasy whose title was inspired by the above poem, two lovers choose to erase their memories to free themselves of one another. They undergo targeted memory erasure by a fictitious company,...
10:54 AM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, lodged in Tihar jail for over two months in connection with the multi-crore CWG scam, is suffering from dementia, a disease related to memory loss, impaired reasoning and personality changes and this may have a bearing on his ongoing trial. The 66-year-old MP from Pune was recently taken to Lok Narayan Jai Prakash Hospital where an MRI scan was conducted on him. The tests show that...
08:04 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Washington: Female teens may be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of binge drinking. Heavy alcohol use has been linked with diminishing mental processes among both adults and adolescents, particularly in tasks of spatial working memory (SWM). SWM is the ability to perceive the space around you, which is critical to logical thinking and reasoning, said study co-author Susan F. Tapert, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San...
11:43 AM, Jul 18, 2011
Washington: Ever wondered why you end up missing some memories after a good night out? It's because your brain cells release steroids that block formation of long-term memories, scientists say. It's been believed that heavy drinking kills brains cells, which in turn causes memory losses. But, the new study found that isn't true. "Alcohol isn't damaging the cells in any way that we can detect," said study researcher Charles Zorumski...
11:51 AM, Jul 11, 2011
