Intake of anti-obesity drug liraglutide, resulted in better brain activity and in-turn finer associative learning in obese individuals.

Obesity leads to altered energy metabolism and reduced insulin sensitivity of cells. The so-called "anti-obesity drugs" are increasingly used to treat obesity and have caused tremendous interest, ...

Associative Memory -- Learning At All Levels Date: March 15, 2007 Source: Salk Institute Summary: "Green" means "go," but what does "red" mean? Just about everybody says "stop" since we all have ...

The ability to make the connection between an event and its consequences -- experts use the term associative learning -- is a crucial skill for adapting to the environment. It has a huge impact on ...

New research published by Nature Communications on Friday shows that researchers developed a device that is capable of learning by association, essentially merging storage and memory capacity.

The research team identified the actions of the neurotransmitters octopamine and dopamine as a key neural mechanism for associative learning in fruit flies.

Animals without a brain still form associative memories Cnidarians like anemones and corals have a nerve net, but that seems to be enough.

Associative learning is the basis for forming neural connections and gives stimuli their motivational force. It is essentially controlled by a brain region called the dopaminergic midbrain.