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Researchers at the Mainz University Medical Center have shed new light on questions concerning how traumatic experiences become entrenched in memory and how fears following a traumatic event can be reduced and prevented from becoming a permanent stress-related disorder. The key to their approach lies in firmly anchoring new, positive experiences in the person's memory.

In an effort to understand why and how listeners remember some spoken utterances more clearly than others, University of Texas at Austin researchers Sandie Keerstock and Rajka Smiljanic are specifically looking at ways in which clarity of speaking style can affect memory.

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Middle-aged people with high levels of the hormone cortisol in their blood have impaired memory when compared to those with average levels of the hormone - even before symptoms of memory loss start to show, according to a new study published in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. People with high levels of the hormone also had lower brain volume than those with regular cortisol levels.