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Older air traffic controllers perform as well as young on job-related tasks
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 09, 2009 |
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In a study that challenges the mandatory retirement of air traffic controllers at the age of 56 in the U.S., researchers have found that air traffic controllers up to age 64 perform as well as their young colleagues on complex, ...
Brain mechanism recruited to reduce noise during challenging tasks
Feb 25, 2009 |
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New research reveals a sophisticated brain mechanism that is critical for filtering out irrelevant signals during demanding cognitive tasks. The study, published by Cell Press in the February 26 issue of the journal Neuron, also p ...
Color boosts brain performance and receptivity to advertising, depending on task
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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A new University of British Columbia study reconciles a debate that has long raged among marketers and psychologists: What colour most improves brain performance and receptivity to advertising, red or blue?
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Individual primates display variation in general intelligence
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Scientists at Harvard University have shown, for the first time, that intelligence varies among individual monkeys within a species - in this case, the cotton-top tamarin.
Older adults less affected by sleep deprivation than younger adults during cognitive performance
Jun 10, 2009 |
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According to a research abstract that will be presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, older adults are able to retain better cognitive functioning during sleep deprivation ...
New research links diabetes to cognitive deterioration
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Blindness, renal failure, stroke and heart disease are potential complications of type 2 diabetes, which currently afflicts more than 15 million Americans. Now research from Tel Aviv University has found more worrying news ...
Postmenopausal women taking anastrozole as a chemopreventive treatment do not have impaired cognitive performance
Sep 05, 2008 |
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New results of a sub-study carried out as part of a worldwide breast cancer prevention study (IBIS-II) show that after two years of taking the aromatase inhibitor, anastrozole, postmenopausal women at high risk of breast ...
Source of cognitive decline in aging brains
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As people age, memory and the ability to carry out tasks often decline. Scientists looking for ways to lessen that decline often have focused on the "gray matter" -- the cortical regions where high-level ...
Research finds that marijuana use takes toll on adolescent brain function
Oct 14, 2008 |
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Brain imaging shows that the brains of teens that use marijuana are working harder than the brains of their peers who abstain from the drug. At the 2008 annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Boston, Mass., ...
Common medication associated with cognitive decline in elderly
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 26, 2009 |
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A study published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggested that the use of certain medications in elderly populations may be associated with cognitive decline. The study examined the effects of exposure to ant ...
Alzheimer's disease risks are gender specific
May 01, 2008 |
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The risks of developing Alzheimer’s disease differ between the sexes, with stroke in men, and depression in women, critical factors, suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Ps ...
Life after chemotherapy: Daily tasks, quality of life may be affected (w/ Podcast)
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Each day, thousands of people undergo chemotherapy treatments for different types of cancer, and it is widely known that patients are negatively affected during the treatments; previous research has shown ...
Multitasking ability can be improved through training
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Training increases brain processing speed and improves our ability to multitask, new research from Vanderbilt University published in the June 15 issue of Neuron indicates.
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