Although firing a gun seems like one action, it is made up of many smaller decisions and movements that require coordination between multiple brain areas.
Jul 16, 2015
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Having a stroke ages a person's brain function by almost eight years, new research finds - robbing them of memory and thinking speed as measured on cognitive tests.
Jun 5, 2015
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Adopted children tend to have a slightly higher IQ than siblings who remained with their biological parents, a recent study found.
Mar 23, 2015
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(HealthDay)—A new blood test is the first objective scientific way to diagnose major depression in adults, a new study claims.
Sep 16, 2014
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Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict future cognitive decline among adults with mild or no cognitive impairment, according to a 36-month follow-up study led ...
Mar 11, 2014
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Researchers have discovered and validated a blood test that can predict with greater than 90 percent accuracy if a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease within three years.
Mar 9, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—A pair of researchers at Colorado College in College Springs, Colorado has shown that fooling people into believing they've had more or less than average amounts of REM sleep can impact their cognitive ...
Using scores obtained from cognitive tests, Johns Hopkins researchers think they have developed a model that could help determine whether memory loss in older adults is benign or a stop on the way to Alzheimer's disease.
Nov 12, 2013
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Breastfeeding longer is associated with better receptive language at 3 years of age and verbal and nonverbal intelligence at age 7 years, according to a study published by JAMA Pediatrics.
Jul 29, 2013
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No computer works as efficiently as the human brain – so much so that building an artificial brain is the goal of many scientists. Neuroinformatics researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have now made ...
Jul 22, 2013
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