News tagged with mental performance


Hormone therapy safe for women, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—A new study has examined the cognitive effects of hormone therapy on memory, language and concentration in menopausal women.

Medications created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why some stress is good for you? Acute stress primes the brain to do better on memory tasks two weeks later

(Medical Xpress)—Overworked and stressed out? Look on the bright side. Some stress is good for you.

Neuroscience created Apr 16, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers zero in on cognitive difficulties associated with menopause

The memory problems that many women experience in their 40s and 50s as they approach and go through menopause are both real and appear to be most acute during the early period of post menopause. That is the conclusion of ...

Other created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicians should not prescribe ADD drugs to healthy people

Physicians in Canada should consider refusing to prescribe cognitive enhancement medications—also used to treat attention deficit disorder (ADD)—to healthy patients, states an analysis article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical A ...

Medications created Dec 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ADHD can cause lifelong problems, study finds

(HealthDay)—If children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, continue to have the condition in adulthood, a new study suggests that they may face an array of physical and mental health ...

Attention deficit disorders created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

1 in 4 in U.S. starts drinking before turning 21, report states

(HealthDay)—Underage drinking in the United States remains a serious public health issue, a new federal government report shows.

Health created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chronic fatigue syndrome—a system under stress

Australian researchers have discovered for the first time that reduced heart rate variability – or changes in heart beat timing – best predicts cognitive disturbances, such as concentration difficulties commonly reported ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research looks at impact of asthma, social deprivation and ethnicity on educational performance

Research led by Queen Mary, University of London has found that having asthma is not linked to poorer scores in national school examinations. In contrast, ethnicity and social deprivation were associated ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survival of safety-net hospitals at risk

Many public safety-net hospitals are likely to face increasing financial and competitive pressures stemming in part from the recent Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, according to researchers at Penn State ...

Health created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gender equality influences how people choose their partners

Men and women clearly have different strategies for picking sexual partners, but the reason why differences exist is less clear. The classic explanation for these differences has been that men's and women's brains have evolved ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mental imagery doesn't improve surgeon performance

(HealthDay) -- Mental imagery (MI) training does not result in an improvement in objective surgical assessment of novice gynecological surgeons performing vaginal hysterectomies (VHs), but does correlate with ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Jun 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The doping-drug Epo has an impact in the brain

Sportsmen and women dope with the blood hormone Epo to enhance their performance. Researchers from the University of Zurich now discovered by animal testing that Epo has a performance-enhancing effect in the brain shortly ...

Medications created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First contact: Early intervention key in diagnosis and treatment of serious mental illness

Early symptoms of major mental illness can be subtle personality changes. Therefore, initial warning signs can often be missed, or even ignored due to conventional wisdom that suggests it's better to wait for true behavioral ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cutting through the 'bull' of high-energy, high-alcohol drinks

(Medical Xpress) -- Caffeinated-alcoholic beverages (CABs) were banned from the U.S. market in November 2010 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which noted serious health incidents at university campuses. ...

Health created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Obesity linked to poorer mental skills in seniors

(HealthDay) -- Obesity is associated with reduced memory and thinking skills in adults aged 60 to 70, especially those with greater amounts of abdominal fat, according to a new study.

Health created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0