Study shows cognitive benefit of lifelong bilingualism
Seniors who have spoken two languages since childhood are faster than single-language speakers at switching from one task to another, according to a study published in the January 9 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Compared to the ...
Neuroscience
Jan 08, 2013 |
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Vitamin D supplementation does not reduce knee pain, cartilage loss in patients with osteoarthritis
In a two year randomized trial, patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis who received vitamin D supplementation did not have a significant difference in knee pain or cartilage volume loss compared to patients who received ...
Arthritis & Rheumatism
Jan 08, 2013 |
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Functional MRI can improve prediction of CBT success
(HealthDay)—Results of functional brain imaging can greatly improve prediction of which patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) will benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), according to a study ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 04, 2013 |
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Neuroscience study reveals new link between basic math skills and PSAT math success
(Medical Xpress)—New research from Western University provides brain imaging evidence that students well-versed in very basic single digit arithmetic (5+2=7 or 7-3=4) are better equipped to score higher on the Preliminary ...
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Jan 04, 2013 |
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Your brain on Big Bird: Sesame Street helps to reveal patterns of neural development
Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math.
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Jan 03, 2013 |
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Time pressure enhances thrill of auctions, Internet auctions use this effect
Shopping is more than the rational exchange of goods against money. Emotions, however, do not only play a role when buying a red sports car or the fiftieth pair of shoes. At the stock exchange or during auctions, bidders ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 03, 2013 |
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Surgery consultation common after MRI of the spine
(HealthDay)—Almost half of patients whose primary care physicians recommend a lumbosacral or cervical spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan go on to receive a surgical consultation, but few end up ...
Surgery
Jan 02, 2013 |
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Imaging study examines effect of fructose on brain regions that regulate appetite
In a study examining possible factors regarding the associations between fructose consumption and weight gain, brain magnetic resonance imaging of study participants indicated that ingestion of glucose but not fructose reduced ...
Health
Jan 01, 2013 |
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Face the facts: Neural integration transforms unconscious face detection into conscious face perception
(Medical Xpress)—The apparent ease and immediacy of human perception is deceptive, requiring highly complex neural operations to determine the category of objects in a visual scene. Nevertheless, the human ...
Neuroscience
Dec 31, 2012 |
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Brain imaging insight into cannabis as a pain killer
The pain relief offered by cannabis varies greatly between individuals, a brain imaging study carried out at the University of Oxford suggests.
Medical research
Dec 20, 2012 |
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Poison for cancer cells: New method identifies active agents in mixtures of hundreds of substances
In their quest for new agents, pharmaceutical researchers test millions of substances all over the world. They like using color-forming reactions to identify new molecules. However, in intensively colored ...
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Dec 20, 2012 |
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Neuroscience: The extraordinary ease of ordinal series
Familiar categories whose members appear in orderly sequences are processed differently than others in the brain, according to new research published by David Eagleman in the open access journal Frontiers in Neuroscience on Dec ...
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Dec 20, 2012 |
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Researchers debunk the IQ myth
After conducting the largest online intelligence study on record, a Western University-led research team has concluded that the notion of measuring one's intelligence quotient or IQ by a singular, standardized test is highly ...
Neuroscience
Dec 19, 2012 |
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Study reveals how the brain categorizes thousands of objects and actions
Humans perceive numerous categories of objects and actions, but where are these categories represented spatially in the brain?
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Dec 19, 2012 |
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Ability to chart the molecular progress of diabetes brings personalized medicine closer to realization
Researchers in Singapore have succeeded in tracking, for the first time, the molecular changes caused by type 2 diabetes that affect how the body handles glucose production in the liver. In a series of experiments ...
Diabetes
Dec 19, 2012 |
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