The next step is to figure out if stimulation also can help when recalling old memories, because that function can also be impaired with dementia, according to Nanthia Suthana, the first author on the study and a UCLA postdoctoral researcher.

WSJ: Memory Gets Jolt in Brain Research

"We think people higher in sexual communal strength are more focused on positive outcomes in their relationship, " says Amy Muise, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and lead author of the study.

WSJ: When He Says, 'More' and She Says 'No'

Bee products were used by prehistoric communities for technological, artistic and medical purposes, but it is thanks to the Lonche finding that we can now imagine men doing dentistry in Neolithic Europe, ' said the study's lead author, Federico Bernardini, a postdoctoral fellow at ICTP's Multidisciplinary Laboratory.

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