Magnetic brain stimulation may enhance memory

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Magnetic brain stimulation may enhance memory - Medical News Today
  • 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.
Memories of our experiences, or episodic memories, help us define who we are as individuals.

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.
 
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