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		<title>New experiences impact both sides of brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain games]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mental exercise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that the adult brain changes with experience was once a radical idea, but it is now well accepted that certain areas—say, the motor cortex, when learning a new physical skill—can grow new neurons or create stronger connections.
Now scientists report that the brain is even more mutable than suspected. Thanks to an unconventional research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are memories lost or inaccessible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at MIT&#8217;s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory conducted learning and memory tasks using transgenic mice that were induced to lose a significant number of brain cells. Following Alzheimer&#8217;s-like brain atrophy, the mice acted as though they did not remember tasks they had previously learned.  But after taking HDAC inhibitors, the mice regained their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Elizabeth Gould talking about neurogenesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hippocampus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Elizabeth Gould received the  prestigious Benjamin Franklin from the RSA organization for her groundbreaking work on neurogenesis. Her research into the effect of environments on the neuronal composition of the brain has profound and far-reaching societal implications.
Good video on how neurogenesis works in the hippocampus and why working out your brain helps it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adult Brain Changes With Unsuspected Speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neurogenesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human brain can adapt to changing demands even in adulthood, but MIT neuroscientists have now found evidence of it changing with unsuspected speed. Their findings suggest that the brain has a network of silent connections that underlie its plasticity.
The brain&#8217;s tendency to call upon these connections could help explain the curious phenomenon of &#8220;referred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for Potential Alzheimer&#8217;s Treatment with Neural Stem Cells</title>
		<link>http://www.myfitbrain.com/blog/index.php/hope-for-potential-alzheimers-treatment-with-neural-stem-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have shown for the first time that neural stem cells can rescue memory in mice with advanced Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, raising hopes of a potential treatment for the leading cause of elderly dementia that afflicts 5.3 million people in the U.S.
Dementia is a general term for a group of brain disorders that affect memory, judgment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating high levels of fructose impairs memory in rats</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memory Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroplasticity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — Researchers at Georgia State University have found that diets high in fructose — a type of sugar found in most processed foods and beverages — impaired the spatial memory of adult rats.
Amy Ross, a graduate student in the lab of Marise Parent, associate professor at Georgia State&#8217;s Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multitasking ability can be improved through training</title>
		<link>http://www.myfitbrain.com/blog/index.php/multitasking-improved-through-training/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myfitbrain.com/blog/index.php/multitasking-improved-through-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cognitive games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental exercise]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brain Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fMri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroplasticity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Training increases brain processing speed and improves our ability to multitask, new research from Vanderbilt University published in the June 15 issue of Neuron indicates.
&#8220;We found that a key limitation to efficient multitasking is the speed with which our prefrontal cortex processes information, and that this speed can be drastically increased through training and practice,” [...]]]></description>
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