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July 2007
Testing one time is not enough
Difficulty identifying odors may predict cognitive decline
Memory problems and sleep disturbance linked in older women
Reading ability protects brain from lead exposure
More on how short-term memory works
A Gene to Better Remember Traumatic Events
You can forget the unhappy past
Work could lead to first drug for post-traumatic stress disorder
Study links manic depression with brain tissue loss
Anatomical advantage for second language learners
June 2007
Distress-prone people more likely to develop memory problems
Improved attention with mindfulness training
Brain scans show how meditation affects the brain
Blind people are 'serial memory' whizzes
Being treated as oldest linked to IQ
Combining brain scans and behavioral tests aids early identification of at-risk readers
Discriminating fact from fiction in recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
Narcolepsy drug alleviates post-chemotherapy fogginess
For cognitive benefits of estrogen, timing is everything
Low doses of ecstasy associated with decline in verbal memory
Smoking interferes with thinking and memory in recovering alcoholics
Brain's voluntary chain-of-command ruled by not 1 but 2 captains
