News tagged with thinking skills
Poor sleep may age your brain
(HealthDay) -- Evidence is building that poor sleep patterns may do more than make you cranky: The amount and quality of shuteye you get could be linked to mental deterioration and Alzheimer's disease, four ...
Health
Jul 16, 2012 |
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Teachers need greater awareness of language disorders
Greater awareness of 'specific language impairment' (SLI), a language disorder, is needed to ensure better outcomes for the 3-6 per cent of UK school children affected by this disability. Children with SLI have difficulties ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 19, 2011 |
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Look before you leap: Teens still learning to plan ahead
Although most teens have the knowledge and reasoning ability to make decisions as rationally as adults, their tendency to make much riskier choices suggests that they still lack some key component of wise decision making. ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Think you're in poor health? It could increase your odds of dementia
People who rate their health as poor or fair appear to be significantly more likely to develop dementia later in life, according to a study published in the October 5, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the ...
Neuroscience
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Working with solvents tied to cognitive problems for less-educated people
Exposure to solvents at work may be associated with reduced thinking skills later in life for those who have less than a high school education, according to a study published in the May 29, 2012, print issue of Neurology, the me ...
Neuroscience
May 28, 2012 |
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Amnestic mild cognitive impairment doubles risk of death
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center have found that people with a form of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a risk factor for developing Alzheimer's disease, ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 16, 2012 |
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Children's complex thinking skills begin forming before they go to school
New research at the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that children begin to show signs of higher-level thinking skills as young as age 4 ½. Researchers have previously attributed ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 23, 2013 |
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Low vitamin B12 levels may lead to brain shrinkage, cognitive problems
Older people with low levels of vitamin B12 in their blood may be more likely to lose brain cells and develop problems with their thinking skills, according to a study published in the September 27, 2011, print issue of Neurology, the me ...
Neuroscience
Sep 26, 2011 |
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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
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Mom's high blood pressure in pregnancy could affect child's IQ in old age
New research from the University of Helsinki, Finland, suggests that a mother's high blood pressure during pregnancy may have an effect on her child's thinking skills all the way into old age. The study is published in the ...
Neuroscience
Oct 03, 2012 |
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