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Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology professors look at movement to study communication and cognition.


Young adults who exercise get higher IQ

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Young adults who are fit have a higher IQ and are more likely to go on to university, reveals a major new study carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital.


Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive ...


Reduced muscle strength associated with risk for Alzheimer's

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Individuals with weaker muscles appear to have a higher risk for Alzheimer's disease and declines in cognitive function over time, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Neurology.


Nicotine Levels Higher in Children Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in the Home

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative’s efforts for a home smoking ban, according ...


Going high-tech to track Alzheimer's patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Tom Dougherty jokes that he takes "get-lost walks." To his wife, Cleo, it's a constant fear: When will his Alzheimer's get bad enough that she has to end his 4-mile daily strolls?


Murders, Traffic Deaths Connected

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

If you want to know how many people are killed in car accidents in a particular U.S. state, look to its prisons. Regions with higher murder rates also tend to have a greater number of traffic fatalities, according to a new ...


Glial cells can cross from the central to the peripheral nervous system (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Glial cells, which help neurons communicate with each other, can leave the central nervous system and cross into the peripheral nervous system to compensate for missing cells, according to new research in the Dec. 2 issue ...


PSA value at 2 years post-treatment can predict long-term survival in prostate cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prostate cancer patients who have a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value of less than or equal to 1.5 at two years after external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) are less likely to have a cancer recurrence and cancer-related ...


Ecstasy may be linked to sleep apnea

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New research shows that recreational users of the drug known as ecstasy may be at a higher risk for sleep apnea. The study is published in the December 2, 2009, online issue of Neurology.



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