It seems that the particular bittersweet combination of nostalgic memory is vital to such effects.
The ability to learn and form memory is vital for animal species.
Therefore, assessing cognitive function in a range of domains such as executive functions, planning, flexibility, abstract thinking, semantic memory as well as episodic memory is vital.
These memories are vital to maintaining the ownership of a brain in a time of social, psychic, viral plague.
But now, perhaps more than at any time in recent memory, it is vital that all sides of politics are wary that their rhetoric does not fan the flames of racism and hatred.
And whereas sleep learning offered only the promise of our being able to regurgitate information from the night before, our latest understanding of sleep tells us that it is instrumental in the processing of memory and is vital to insight.
But the Christmas lights of the young mice were still blinking away during sleep, a crucial time when the brain works on its database – consolidating memory, which is vital for cognition and behavioral response.
Knowing that sleep helps consolidate myriad forms of learning including verbal sub-forms of declarative memory, and forming and retaining memories of old faces is vital for social interaction, one would expect sleep to enhance face recognition memory as well.
But memory is a vital tool for critics, and it is foolish to pretend you are experiencing everything for the first time.
We have argued here that the extended hippocampal diencephalic system, embracing the anterior thalamic nuclei, the medial mammillary bodies and other closely connected structures, is vital for memory, and for long-term memory in particular.
Given the size of this tract, e.g., in the human brain the fornix is thought to comprise over 2 000 000 fibres in each hemisphere (Daitz, 1953), and given the numerous sites that it reaches, it is inevitable to ask: (i) whether the fornix is vital for memory; and, if so, (ii) how might the various connections in this tract support memory?
