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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News tagged with work ability
Neuroscience
Neuroscientists find it's never too late to retrain brain
(Medical Xpress)—UCSF neuroscientists have found that by training on attention tests, people young and old can improve brain performance and multitasking skills.
Nov 2, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Men, not women, better multitaskers: Swedish study
Working mothers may have to juggle more tasks than their husbands, but the long-held belief that women are better than men at multitasking is a myth, according to new Swedish research.
Oct 24, 2012
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Cardiology
Low cardiorespiratory fitness in youth associated with decreased work ability throughout adulthood, finds 45-year study
A study from the University of Jyväskylä confirms the concerns raised in the public domain about how young people's decreased fitness may affect their future work ability. The association of low youth cardiorespiratory ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Medical economics
Does an early menopause transition cause women to leave the workforce sooner?
Since most women will continue working for years after entering menopause, the effect of menopause symptoms on their working ability is an important issue and the focus of a new study. Among other things, the study suggested ...
Mar 12, 2024
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Immunology
A simplified measurement method for determining immune age improves analysis of cardiorespiratory fitness
Both the functionality of the immune system and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) play an important role in a person's health and work ability. Researchers at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors ...
Nov 21, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Is your job killing you? Stress, lack of autonomy, ability can lead to depression, death
As millions continue working from home during the pandemic or are required to report to jobs as essential employees, many have raised questions about how these work conditions impact our health—and not just as they relate ...
May 19, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Poverty may be more critical to cognitive function than trauma in adolescent refugees
For approximately a decade, research has examined whether trauma or poverty is the most powerful influence on children's cognitive abilities. To address this question, a new study compared adolescents in Jordan—refugees ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Health
Virtual, face-to-face exercise coaching motivates employees who are at high risk of heart disease, diabetes to exercise
A personalised active lifestyle programme for employees with metabolic syndrome (who are at high risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes) that uses wearable activity trackers, a smartphone app, and face-to-face ...
Jun 14, 2019
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Neuroscience
New information on the brain areas linked to tactile sense and metacognitive ability
According to the results of a new doctoral thesis by Juha Gogulski, magnetic stimulation of prefrontal cortex affected subjects' performance in tactile tasks and their ability to evaluate their performance.
Aug 21, 2018
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