A newly formed memory is temporarily fragile and becomes stable through a process known as consolidation. Stable memories may again become fragile if retrieved or reactivated, and undergo a process of reconsolidation to persist and strengthen. Both consolidation and reconsolidation require an initial phase of transcription and translation that lasts for several hours. The identification of the ...

Why have some researchers found reports of flashbulb memories to be stable, while others have observed inconsistencies? Paradoxically, it appears that relatively long delays between event and initial documentation have produced greater consistency of participants' reports. To investigate this directly, we collected the initial documentation of hearing about O.J. Simpson's acquittal either five ...

Objective: The goal of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of intraperitoneal (JP) cisplatin as consolidation treatment, in epithelial ovarian cancer patients with pathologically negative surgical reassessment, following first-line platinum-based chemotherapy. Methods: This study included 22 patients with FIGO stage (IIc- IV) epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) which had no evidence of disea...

The goal of this study was to investigate offline memory consolidation with regard to general motor skill learning and implicit sequence-specific learning. We trained young adults on a serial reaction time task with a retention interval of either 24 hours (Experiment 1) or 1 week (Experiment 2) between two sessions. We manipulated sequence complexity (deterministic vs. probabilistic) and motor ...

In young adults without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) training on a novel movement sequence results not only in large within-session (online) gains in task performance but also in additional (delayed, off-line) gains in the performance, expressed after an interval of sleep. In contrast, young people with ADHD, given an identical practice, were shown to improve online but expre...

The seasonal abundance, night indoor biting behavior and parity of Culex quinquefasciatus were investigated for a period of one year from June 1988 to May 1989 in Mysore City. Twelve-hour night-time biting catches were carried out from 1800-0600 hours at four selected urban localities. The biting cycle revealed that Cx. quinquefasciatus was active throughout the night, with peak activity at 220...

A 49-year-old woman with acute myeloid transformation of myelodysplastic syndrome was admitted with mild erythema and pain in the right thigh and left forearm. She was doing well and had been discharged the previous day after consolidation chemotherapy. Examination showed only mild erythema and tenderness of the right thigh. She was started on broad-spectrum antibiotics. Discoloration progresse...

An individual's identification of his retirement situation does not necessarily coincide with the retirement concept as defined by objective measures. Self-evaluation of retirement status by respondents to the Retirement History Study has been analyzed to discover to what extent their subjective assessment of retirement matched the situation predicted by objective measures. For those completely...

A significant amount of economic activity takes place within the home. Unfortunately, it is difficult to assess the cyclical properties of home production because the available data are too sporadic. Using a Real Business Cycle model, we construct quarterly data on three variables that are unobservable at a quarterly frequency: hours worked in the home sector, hours spent in leisure, and the co...

Human sleep, defined on the basis of electroencephalogram (EEG), electromyogram (EMG) and electrooculogram (EOG), is divided into rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and four stages of non–rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Collective monitoring and recording of physiological data during sleep is called polysomnography. Sleep which normally starts with a period of NREM alternates with REM, about 4-5 t...