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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 ...
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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 ...
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
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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 ...
Workplace literacy schemes are too short to improve skills
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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The five billion pound Skills for Life programme is based on the assumption that an improvement in literacy and numeracy will increase people's earning potential, as well as their productivity and employability. However, ...
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 ...
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