Month: August 2019

Speech Comprehension and Its Relation to Other Auditory Parameters in Elderly Patients With Tinnitus

Deteriorated speech comprehension is a common manifestation of the age-related decline of auditory functions (presbycusis). It could be assumed that when presbycusis is accompanied by tinnitus, general hearing functions, and particularly comprehension of speech in quiet and speech in noise, will be significantly affected. In this study, speech comprehension ability and other parameters of auditory […]

Published on August 23, 2019

Awake Reactivation of Prior Experiences Consolidates Memories and Biases Cognition

After experiences are encoded into memory, post-encoding reactivation mechanisms have been proposed to mediate long-term memory stabilization and transformation. Spontaneous reactivation of hippocampal representations, together with hippocampal–cortical interactions, are leading candidate mechanisms for promoting systems-level memory strengthening and reorganization. While the replay of spatial representations has been extensively studied in rodents, here we review recent […]

Published on August 23, 2019

2 Reasons Why Women Should Consume More Protein

Ladies, are you confused by the clutter of information out there about the protein in your diet? Bill Campbell, Ph.D., from the ISSN lays out the scientific reasoning for why women should increase their daily uptake of this muscle-building macronutrient. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder […]

Published on August 23, 2019