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Magnetic brain stimulation may enhance memory - Medical News Today
Episodic memory also allows us to function effectively on a day-to-day basis, from remembering where we put our phone to what groceries we need to buy on a shopping trip.
The ability to form new memories declines slowly with age, but brain injury and conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease can result in a severe, debilitating loss of episodic memory.
- Aging, dementia, and brain injury can reduce people’s capacity to form new memories of events in their lives, which experts term episodic memory.
- A study suggests that low-frequency magnetic stimulation of a particular part of the brain enhances the formation of this kind of memories.
- Much more research is necessary, but the discovery could provide a way to improve memory in people with conditions such as dementia.
Episodic memory also allows us to function effectively on a day-to-day basis, from remembering where we put our phone to what groceries we need to buy on a shopping trip.
The ability to form new memories declines slowly with age, but brain injury and conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease can result in a severe, debilitating loss of episodic memory.