Good health helps grades when students hit puberty
Good health helps children with stressful transitions from elementary school to middle school, finds a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Students with chronic conditions such as asthma, obesit ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 29, 2012 |
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Anaesthetic linked to learning problems in children
(Medical Xpress)—Children who are given anaesthetic before the age of three may have an increased risk of developing learning difficulties, according to a new study involving researchers at The University of Western Australia.
Pediatrics
Aug 28, 2012 |
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Lesson in sleep learning: Associations formed in brains of sleeping volunteers remained intact when subjects were awake
Is sleep learning possible? A new Weizmann Institute study appearing today in Nature Neuroscience has found that if certain odors are presented after tones during sleep, people will start sniffing when they hear the tones ...
Neuroscience
Aug 26, 2012 |
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New research re-introduces athletes with learning difficulties into the Paralympic Games
As a result of extensive research and a robust new classification system conducted by academics at Canterbury Christ Church University, athletes are now eligible to compete again in the London 2012 Paralympics.
Other
Aug 22, 2012 |
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Taking a break makes practice perfect
(Medical Xpress) -- Trying to learn a piano piece or master a new dance step? Make sure you take good breaks while training because you'll learn more effectively than if you push yourself and practice non-stop, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 20, 2012 |
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Experimental learning paying off
Through the use of the Online Health Program Planner, a tool created by Public Health Ontario, a soon-to-be-implemented peer nutrition education program by and for university students looks to help enhance critical thinking ...
Other
Aug 20, 2012 |
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Long-term methadone treatment can affect nerve cells in brain
Long-term methadone treatment can cause changes in the brain, according to recent studies from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The results show that treatment may affect the nerve cells in the brain. The studies ...
Medications
Aug 15, 2012 |
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Study sheds light on underlying causes of impaired brain function in muscular dystrophy
University of Florida researchers have identified a gene responsible for brain-related symptoms of the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy.
Neuroscience
Aug 08, 2012 |
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Psychologists compare learning achievement with and without stress
Stressed and non-stressed persons use different brain regions and different strategies when learning. This has been reported by the cognitive psychologists PD Dr. Lars Schwabe and Professor Oliver Wolf from the Ruhr-Universität ...
Neuroscience
Aug 08, 2012 |
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A 'learning health system' moves from idea to action
In the United States, clinicians are struggling to provide better and more affordable health care to more people—while keeping up with new scientific developments. The idea of a "learning health system" ...
Health
Aug 06, 2012 |
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Psychology of possibilities can enhance health, happiness, research says
First-time mothers who pay attention to their emotional and physical changes during their pregnancy may feel better and have healthier newborns than new mothers who don't, according to research to be presented at American ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 02, 2012 |
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Gene discovery set to help with mysterious paralysis of childhood
Alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) is a very rare disorder that causes paralysis that freezes one side of the body and then the other in devastating bouts that arise at unpredictable intervals. Seizures, learning disabilities ...
Genetics
Jul 29, 2012 |
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Piglets in mazes provide insights into human cognitive development
Events that take place early in life almost certainly have consequences for later cognitive development. Establishing the connections is difficult, however, because human infants cannot be used as laboratory subjects.
Neuroscience
Jul 25, 2012 |
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New publication examines effect of early drug administration on Alzheimer's animal model
In a study published June 25 in the Journal of Neuroscience, a collaborative team of researchers led by Linda J. Van Eldik, director of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, and D. Martin Watterson of the ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Jul 24, 2012 |
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Alcoholism and HIV infection have different effects on visuomotor procedural memory processes
The different effects on memory processes by chronic alcoholism and HIV infection likely reflect the specific neuropathology associated with each condition: frontocerebellar dysfunction in alcoholism and frontostriatal dysfunction ...
Addiction
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