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New app to provide deep insights about dementia

mobile-apps-collage WASHINGTON, D.C.: Scientists have developed a virtual reality smartphone app to help people gain insight into the varied symptoms people with dementia experience in everyday life.

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Why forgetting may be good for memory

brainNEW YORK: For managing the memories acquired across a lifetime, human beings need to forget — as part of the brains’ system, says new research that has identified a new protein required for normal forgetting by the brain, says IANS.

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Patients exhibiting early signs of Alzheimer’s need more attention

payattentionNEW YORK: A new study carried out by a team of researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom suggests that the Alzheimer’s test should actually look a wider range of signs related to memory loss that take place during the early stages of the Read More »

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IBM bets its future on cognitive computing

ibmNEW YORK: After four years of falling revenues, the old-stager of the computer industry is remaking itself around the artificial intelligence machine Watson. A new lab in Munich will spearhead the strategy of using AI to make sense of data from billions of internet-connected devices.

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