Psychology & Psychiatry
Couldn't socially distance? Blame your working memory
Whether you decided to engage in social distancing in the early stages of COVID-19 depended on how much information your working memory could hold.
Jul 11, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Put down that Xbox remote: Researcher suggests video games may not boost cognition
Wouldn't it be nice if all those hours kids spent glued to their PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 or Nintendo DS video games actually resulted in something tangible? Better grades, perhaps? Improved concentration? Superior driving ...
Sep 15, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Video games can boost children's intelligence: study
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have studied how the screen habits of U.S. children correlates with how their cognitive abilities develop over time. They found that the children who spent an above-average time ...
May 13, 2022
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Health
Study of 70,000 individuals links dementia to smoking and cardiovascular disease
In the largest study of the associations between smoking and cardiovascular disease on cognitive function, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, found both impair ...
May 13, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
From San Diego to Italy, study suggests wisdom can protect against loneliness
Over the last few decades, there has been growing concern about loneliness across all ages, particularly in middle-aged and older adults. Loneliness, defined as feeling isolated or not having an adequate number of meaningful ...
Oct 1, 2020
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Cardiology
Strokes steal eight years' worth of brain function, new study suggests
Having a stroke ages a person's brain function by almost eight years, new research finds - robbing them of memory and thinking speed as measured on cognitive tests.
Jun 5, 2015
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Neuroscience
People with less memory loss in old age gain more knowledge
Do cognitive abilities change together, or do they change independently of each other? An international research team from the USA, Sweden, and Germany involving the Max Planck Institute for Human Development has presented ...
Feb 3, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Autism spectrum disorder study looks at monkeys as possible models
New research builds upon growing evidence demonstrating the importance of rhesus macaque monkeys (Macaca mulatta) as a model for the core social impairments observed in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Jan 16, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Rodents seem to make the same logical errors humans do
Animals, like humans, appear to be troubled by a Linda problem.
Mar 30, 2023
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Neuroscience
'Brain road maps' reflect behavior differences between males and females
Differences in the neural wiring across development of men and women across ages, matched behavioral differences commonly associated with each of the sexes, according to an imaging-based study from researchers at the Perelman ...
Feb 9, 2016
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