{"id":166967,"date":"2018-06-14T02:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166967"},"modified":"2018-06-14T02:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:36:48","slug":"sunshine-might-help-improve-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/14\/sunshine-might-help-improve-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine might help improve memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_166968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166968\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nature-3294681_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166968\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nature-3294681_640.jpg\" alt=\"Xiong Wei, lead scientist of the research, said moderate exposure to the sun has many benefits, including promoting the synthesis of vitamin D and treatment of many skin diseases. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nature-3294681_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nature-3294681_640-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xiong Wei, lead scientist of the research, said moderate exposure to the sun has many benefits, including promoting the synthesis of vitamin D and treatment of many skin diseases. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BEIJING<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Always forgetting things? A new Chinese study suggests you might need more outdoor activity and exposure to sunlight to improve your memory.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China found that moderate UV exposure enhances learning and memory by promoting a novel glutamate bio-synthetic pathway in the brain. The discovery was recently published in the academic journal, Cell.<\/p>\n<p>Xiong Wei, lead scientist of the research, said moderate exposure to the sun has many benefits, including promoting the synthesis of vitamin D and treatment of many skin diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists also found that sunlight will affect the neural system. Moderate exposure might help lift your spirits and improve cognitive functions. However, the deep-level mechanism between sunshine and the neural system is still unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Combining research methods in cell biology and neuroscience, researchers discovered that being exposed to the sun might greatly increase the content of a chemical substance called UCA in the blood of animals. UCA enters nerve cells in the brain and transforms into glutamic acid by a series of bio-metabolic enzymes.<\/p>\n<p>The glutamic acid is released in the nerve endings of the motor cortex and hippocampus, a brain region vital to memory and learning, said Xiong.<\/p>\n<p>The research will play an important role in understanding the working mechanism of the brain and pathogenesis of relevant diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING\u00a0&#8212; Always forgetting things? A new Chinese study suggests you might need more outdoor activity and exposure to sunlight to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":166968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[51890,51891],"class_list":["post-166967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-university-of-science-and-technology","tag-xiong-wei","mauthors-xinhua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}