Study explores how changes in healthy brain structure affect cognition
As the human brain ages, the neural circuits that allow its different parts to communicate with each other gradually wear down, even in healthy adults.
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As the human brain ages, the neural circuits that allow its different parts to communicate with each other gradually wear down, even in healthy adults.
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Languages are used to convey thoughts, identity, knowledge, and the way people see and understand the world. Mastering more than one language provides a gateway to other cultures, and according to a team of researchers led ...
Sep 21, 2020
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For our social life and our profession we must be able to deal with our environment and other people. Executive functions, meaning the basic intellectual abilities that control human thought and action, help us to do this. ...
May 19, 2020
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Employing advanced technologies that allow whole brain imaging at single-cell resolution, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that in an alcohol-dependent mouse model, the rodent brain's ...
Jan 15, 2020
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Bilingual children do not have more advantages than monolingual children when it comes to executive function, which includes remembering instructions, controlling responses, and shifting swiftly between tasks, according to ...
Jan 18, 2019
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Young children experiencing deprivation and neglect in institutional settings have impaired memory and executive functioning at ages 8 and 16 compared with peers placed early in quality foster homes, report investigators ...
Jan 15, 2019
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People who regularly take cocaine cut with the animal anti-worming agent levamisole demonstrate impaired cognitive performance and a thinned prefrontal cortex. These findings from two recent studies at the University of Zurich ...
Nov 1, 2018
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Leukemia itself, not just side effects related to its treatment, may increase the risk for long-term problems with attention, organization and related neurocognitive skills in survivors of the most common childhood cancer, ...
Mar 29, 2018
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Brain stimulation could be used to treat cognitive deficits frequently associated with schizophrenia, according to a new study from King's College London.
Jul 24, 2017
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People who know more than one language may have a better chance of maintaining their cognitive ability late into life or after neurodegenerative conditions, says an expert at the University of Alberta.
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