The ability to vividly imagine future events enriches our experience of the world. Such ‘mental time travel’ has been shown to enhance decision making and mimic the emotional value that a future experience may hold. However, a growing body of research indicates that dwelling on the future may be detrimental to one’s health, inducing unhappiness and […]
Patients recovering from depression show improvements in memory from the drug modafinil
Modafinil, a drug used to treat narcolepsy – excessive daytime sleepiness – can improve memory in patients recovering from depression, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. The findings, published today in the journal Biological Psychiatry: CNNI, result from a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study and offer hope of a treatment for some of […]
Reality Monitoring in Autism Spectrum Conditions.
Have you ever recalled a story about yourself, only to realise that you were actually recounting something that happened to someone else? If so, this would be due to a failure in reality monitoring – the ability to discriminate between memories for actual events and memories for imagined events. A collaborative project between the departments of […]