This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Amnesia is a loss of memory. But scientists in Britain have found that it can mean a loss of imagination as well. They asked amnesia patients in a study to imagine new experiences and then describe them.

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Lesson29 Alcohol Damage to the Young Brain Few teens seem to worry about what alcohol does to their bodies. Cirrhosis of the liver is unlikely to catch up with them for decades, and heart disease must seem as remote as retirement, but recent research

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Wanna be lazy and productive at the same time? Try a napbecause napping can improve learning. So said U.C. Berkeleys Matthew Walker February 21st at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego. He followed two

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. You probably remember exactly what you were doing when you first heard the news on 9/11. Thats because the brain has ways to file information so that thi

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Migrating Birds Remember Better Migratory birds not only get to see the world. A new study finds that these globetrotters also have better long-term memories than stay-at-home relatives. The extra bra

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工作累了,就趴在办公桌上小睡片刻,这样有助于提高你的记忆力。据英国《每日邮报》报道,德国一项最新研究发现,白天打个盹不仅可以使人恢复体力,还能帮助大家提高记忆力。 To Lea

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Doctors prescribe Ritalin to hyperactive kids to calm them down and increase their attention span. And college kids have taken to using Ritalin to concentrate

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We all love getting something new. But then we have to move around our current clutter to find a place for it. Well, looks like things work the same way in the brain. Because according to a study published in the journal Cell, newborn neurons in the

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From the back seat of a cab, the moves a driver makes may at time seem, let us say, daring. In fact, cabbys may actually be better, more edge out drivers than the rest of us, because they know their streets so well. Previous research found that the h

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BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists in Canada have raised a prospect of reversing Alzheimer's disease by deep brain stimulation, according to media reports Monday. The technique here is known as deep brain stimulation -- applying electricity d

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Finding Room for New Memories A study in the journal Cell shows that the formation of new memories requires the movement of other memories located in the hippocampus to long-term storage in the neocortex. Karen Hopkin reports We all love getting some

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Silent Strokes Tied to Memory Loss Among Older Adults The results of a stroke are painfully evident as this patient struggles to get out of a wheelchair and walk again. Sudden numbness, physical weakness, difficulty speaking and comprehending and los

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ways to improve your alertness and cognitive function in the morning. 早晨提高你的警觉性及认知能力 Be physically active Physical activity in the morning can also help to increase your mental performance and make you more alert, as it in

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