Search results for mental skills
Even without dementia, mental skills decline years before death
Aug 27, 2008 |
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A new study shows that older people's mental skills start declining years before death, even if they don't have dementia. The study is published in the August 27, 2008, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the ...
Skills tests like 'connect the dots' may be early Alzheimer's indicator
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of mental decline in the years prior to diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease suggests that changing the focus of testing may help physicians detect signs of the disease much earlier. School of Medicine ...
Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Do your kids want a Wii, a PlayStation or an Xbox 360 this year? This holiday gift season is packed with popular gaming systems and adrenaline-pumping, sharpshooting games. What's a parent to do? Is there any redeeming value ...
Mind May Be MVP on the Diamond
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 09, 2008 |
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“Hope springs eternal” in the heart of every baseball fan and nothing trumps the feeling of emerging from the turnstile to absorb the comforting vision of fresh grass, manicured infield dirt and crisp white foul lines. The ...
Mental, emotional and behavioral disorders can be prevented in young people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Around one in five young people in the U.S. have a current mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder. About half of all adults with mental disorders recalled that their disorders began by their mid-teens and three-quarters ...
University of Denver bullying victimization study
Feb 22, 2008 |
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A University of Denver study shows a curriculum-based bullying prevention program reduced incidents of bullying by 20 percent, twice as much as in the study control group.
National positive thinking trial aims to prevent childhood depression
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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More than 7,000 school pupils from across the UK will be taking part in the trial of a new positive thinking programme led by the University of Bath designed to prevent children developing problems with depression.
Stronger effort needed to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in young people
Feb 13, 2009 |
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The federal government should make preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and promoting mental health in young people a national priority, says a new report from the National Research Council and Institute ...
Study suggests Buddhist deity meditation temporarily augments visuospatial abilities
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Apr 27, 2009 |
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Meditation has been practiced for centuries, as a way to calm the soul and bring about inner peace. According to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, there is now ev ...
The brain maintains language skills in spite of alcohol damage by drawing from other regions
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Researchers know that alcoholism can damage the brain's frontal lobes and cerebellum, regions involved in language processing. Nonetheless, alcoholics' language skills appear to be relatively spared from alcohol's damaging ...
More mental health care called for in wake of Ft. Hood shootings
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 11, 2009 |
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The recent shootings at the Ft. Hood, Texas army base, allegedly by an army psychiatrist, have placed much-needed focus on mental health care in the army. In an article published in the December issue of the journal CNS Sp ...
UNL research aims to understand homelessness among women
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Dec 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women make up nearly one-third of the homeless population in the United States. Yet little is known about how they become homeless or how they live. University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Les Whitbeck ...
New family care model aids at-risk families
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Aug 31, 2009 |
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Many families struggle on a day-to-day basis with insufficient in-home care or problematic out-of-home care for their emotionally or behaviorally troubled children and adolescents. Researchers have recently shown that an ...
It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning—learning ...
Marriage is good for the health: global study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Despite the barbs of comedians and the spectacular bust-ups documented in the gossip magazines, marriage really is good for you, international research has found.
