{"id":144648,"date":"2022-08-23T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/long-lasting-dissociable-improvements-in-working-memory-and-long-term-memory-in-older-adults-with-repetitive-neuromodulation"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:27:31","slug":"long-lasting-dissociable-improvements-in-working-memory-and-long-term-memory-in-older-adults-with-repetitive-neuromodulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/long-lasting-dissociable-improvements-in-working-memory-and-long-term-memory-in-older-adults-with-repetitive-neuromodulation","title":{"rendered":"Long-lasting, dissociable improvements in working memory and long-term memory in older adults with repetitive neuromodulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-lasting-dissociable-improvements-in-working-memory-and-long-term-memory-in-older-adults-with-repetitive-neuromodulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This method could be helpful for elderly people.<\/p>\n<p>Our brain has both short-term and long-term memory. While short-term memory helps us with things like remembering the bus number, long-term memory processes information for a long time. However, as we age, our memory does not work as well as it used to.<\/p>\n<p>Electrical brain stimulation for 20 minutes on four consecutive days can improve two different types of memory in individuals 65 years and older for at least one month, a study published in the journal <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, this method could be beneficial for elderly people to maintain their errands very easily.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Reinhart <i>et al.<\/i> show that repetitive transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) of unique combinations of rhythmic frequency and stimulation locations produces selective and long-lasting improvements in verbal working memory and long-term memory in older adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This method could be helpful for elderly people. Our brain has both short-term and long-term memory. While short-term memory helps us with things like remembering the bus number, long-term memory processes information for a long time. However, as we age, our memory does not work as well as it used to. Electrical brain stimulation for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}