Green Tea Good for Memory?

Although many people enjoy the taste of green tea, what they don't know is that they could be improving their memory and other brain functions as well. The study composed by Professor Christoph Beglinger from the University Hospital of Basel and Professor Stefan Borgwardt from the Psychiatric University Clinic. Both professors ran MRI tests on healthy male participants to analyze the brain activity. The MRI showed there was an increased activity between the frontal and the parietal cortex of the brain. Professor Borgwardt came to the conclusion that the, "Findings suggest that green tea might increase the short-term synaptic plasticity of the brain" There is no actual knowledge to see how green tea and the frontal and parietal cortex work together.

The study will continue its research and it will increase the help in other mental problems such as dementia and and any other cognitive impairment. 

Even if green tea shows it helps in memory and other cognitive impairments, it only showed this study in healthy males. I'm very curious if this study could, or would apply to women as well. Personally I would need this because Short term memory runs in my family and to my own benefit, be ahead of the game. 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140407101545.htm

Dogs love us as much as we love them!

According to today's surveys, dogs are a large part of about 50% of American households. From the way they wag there tails, lick us and cuddle with us, can we be sure that they really love us back? The answer is yes, thanks to the recent growth in brain imaging technology, which gives us a look inside the brain of a dog. According to a study, "not only do dogs seem to love us back, they actually see us as their family. It turns out that dogs rely on humans more than they do their own kind of affection, protections and everything in between." The most recent evidence pertaining to the dog brain is that scientists found that dog owners' aroma sparked activation in the "reward center" of the brain, which is called the caudate nucleus. This evidence comes from scientists at Emory University who trained dogs to lie on an MRI machine and used functional MRI to measure the neural responses when smelling both people and dogs. Along with this evidence, researchers in Budapest at Eotvos Lorand University studied canine brain activity in response to both human and dog sounds. This study revealed that there are similarities in the way dog and human brains process emotional vocal sounds. "In short: Dogs don't just seem to pick up on our subtle mood changes - they are actually physically wired to pick up on them." We now most definitely know that our pets love us as much as we hoped, even maybe more. I found this article very exciting because it clarifies that my dog loves me as much as I love her. When she barks and wags her tail when I walk through the door, I now know that she is really happy to see me. I don't know what I would do without her.

Capsule Camera

This article is about a new version of the endoscope. The endoscope is ordinarily a small camera or a set of fiber optics attached to some flexible tubing. A new version has been designed to be wireless. "According to Dr. Gabor Kosa of TAU's School of Mechanical Engineering, the project is inspired by an endoscopic capsule designed for use in the small intestine. But unlike the existing capsule, which travels at random and snaps pictures every half second to give doctors an overall view of the intestines, the new "wireless" capsules will use the magnetic field of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine and electronic signals manipulated by those operating the capsule to forge a more precise and deliberate path." This is much safer then the usaul method that often needs the use of sedatives and always has a risk for injury although this device is new it seems like a prosperous idea. This article was found at:http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2011/12/15/a_fantastic_voyage_through_the_body_with_precision_control.html