While babies are born ready to learn any of the world's languages, the crucial developmental period when they attune to their native languages can change due to environmental influences such as maternal depression or a bilingual ...
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A new research report contributes to the increasing evidence that repeated occupational exposure to certain chemical solvents raises the risk for Parkinson's disease. Researchers analyzed the occupational histories of twins ...
Nov 14, 2011
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If you work indoors, live in the north, avoid the sun, are lactose intolerant, vegan, elderly or darker skinned, chances are you may be deficient in vitamin D. It's a common problem affecting as many as 25% of Americans, ...
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For over 100 years, scientists have sought to understand what links a person's general intelligence, health and aging. In a new study, a University of Missouri scientist suggests a model where mitochondria, or small energy ...
May 8, 2019
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The well-established view that intelligence is largely genetically fixed and hardly malleable has been discarded. A team of Dutch research methodologists at VU University Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and Tilburg ...
Oct 24, 2013
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(Medical Xpress) -- Taller people are at increased risk of a wide range of cancers, according to new research led by Oxford University.
Jul 22, 2011
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Developing expertise usually requires a variety of skills, and some people can become experts while others can't. Common practice in perceptual learning research has treated ubiquitous individual learning differences as random ...
Jul 21, 2020
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University of Queensland researchers are calling for screening of perinatal depression (PND) for all women during pregnancy, after finding women with persistent depression are at high risk of developing the condition.
Aug 18, 2022
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A new study of twins finds that genetics play a significant role in how affectionate women are, but the same can't be said for men.
Jun 23, 2020
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Environmental stressors such as air pollution, noise, unhealthy urban planning, and climate change increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, as do traditional risk factors such as smoking, unhealthy diet, and physical ...
May 12, 2023
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