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Some Short-term Memories Die Suddenly, No Fading
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The human brain stores some kinds of memories for a lifetime. But when our eyes are open and looking at things, our gray matter also creates temporary memories that help us process complex ...
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The smart way to study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Combine the aphorisms that "practice makes perfect" and "timing is everything" into one and you might get something resembling findings published in this month's issue of Psychological Science. Proper spacing of lessons, the re ...
UWM study explores why women leave engineering careers
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 06, 2009 |
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While only one in 10 male engineers leave their field by the time they reach their 30s, about one in four women are not working in engineering despite having completed the necessary education.
Intervals between lung cancer diagnosis and treatment displays a health care disparity
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Research published in the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology has found that intervals between lung cancer suspicion, diagnosis and treatment may be attributed to health care system discrepancies.
Scientists identify protein that enhances long-term memory by controlling rest intervals
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2009 |
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As most good students realize, repeated studying produces good memory. Those who study a lot realize, further, that what they learn tends to be preserved longer in memory if they space out learning sessions between rest intervals. ...
Imaging test detects Alzheimer's disease that is likely to progress
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Early Alzheimer's disease detected by a compound that binds to brain plaques appears likely to progress into symptomatic Alzheimer's disease with dementia, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Neurology, one of ...
Dietary fats trigger long-term memory formation
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Having strong memories of that rich, delicious dessert you ate last night? If so, you shouldn't feel like a glutton. It's only natural.
Strategies to reduce HIV treatment dropout rates: cost-effective and improve survival chances
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 26, 2009 |
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In a study published this week in PLoS Medicine, Elena Losina (of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston) and colleagues predict that strategies to reduce dropout rates from HIV treatment programs in resource-poor settin ...
ICT fails to accelerate drug approvals
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Drug approvals are taking just as long as they ever did despite increased expenditure on new information technology at the Food and drug Administration. So says a statistical analysis of approval intervals from 1997 to 2006, ...
Long-term study of orchard ground cover management systems
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Orchard floor and groundcover management is important to fruit growers, affecting the efficiency of orchard operations, fruit tree performance, and soil quality.
Familiar and newly learned words are processed by the same neural networks in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Our vocabulary continues to grow and expand even in adulthood. Just ten years ago, the word 'blog' did not yet exist - and now we no longer remember when we heard this word for the first time or when we learned its meaning. ...
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