News tagged with skills
The fancier the cortex, the smarter the brain?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Why are some people smarter than others? In a new article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Eduardo Mercado III from the University at Buffalo, The St ...
Who am I? Adolescents' replies depend on others (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Ask middle-school students if they are popular or make friends easily, they likely will depend on social comparisons with their peers for an answer. Such reliance on the perceived opinions of others, or reflected ...
White matter changes may predict dementia risk
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Elderly people with no memory or thinking problems are more likely to later develop thinking problems if they have a growing amount of "brain rust," or small areas of brain damage, according to a study published in the July ...
Language skills in your twenties may predict risk of dementia decades later
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 08, 2009 |
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People who have superior language skills early in life may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease decades later, despite having the hallmark signs of the disease, according to research published in the July 9, 2009, ...
Overweight individuals have greater risk of reduced memory and thinking skills in late life
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Individuals with higher mid-life Body Mass Index (BMI) in the 1960s have been found to have lower memory and thinking skills and a sharper decline in these abilities in old age, compared to those with lower BMI in mid-life.
Physics education improves when students make their own computer models
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 02, 2009 |
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A current trend in secondary science education is for students to learn by discovering for themselves how things work. Computer modelling is a teaching method that fits in nicely with this trend and also with new learning ...
'Mixed reality' human helps medical students learn to do intimate exams
Jun 23, 2009 |
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"What brings you in to see me today?"
Staying sharp: New study uncovers how people maintain cognitive function in old age
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Not everyone declines in cognitive function with age. Elderly people who exercise at least once a week, have at least a high school education and a ninth grade literacy level, are not smokers and are more socially active ...
It really may be the best medicine
May 15, 2009 |
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Talk turned serious -- painfully so, at times -- during the two hours of group discussion.
Program focused on body, mind and spirit helps women with breast cancer cope
May 15, 2009 |
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Pathfinders, a program designed to care for the whole person -- body, mind and spirit -- has been found to help women with terminal cancer cope and improved their quality of life, according to a study led by researchers in ...
Preschoolers' language development is partly tied to their classmates' language skills
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 15, 2009 |
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Young children learn how to speak and understand language from the words parents speak at home and teachers speak in preschool. A new longitudinal study has found that their preschool classmates also play a part.
Neandertals sophisticated and fearless hunters
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 14, 2009 |
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Neandertals, the 'stupid' cousins of modern humans were capable of capturing the most impressive animals. This indicates that Neandertals were anything but dim. Dutch researcher Gerrit Dusseldorp analysed their daily forays ...
New tool can help predict risk of Alzheimer's in elderly
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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A new tool can help predict whether people age 65 and older have a high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Research on the tool is published in the May 13, 2009, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the ...
Cognition already seriously impaired in first episode of schizophrenia
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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Significant and widespread cognitive problems appear to exist in schizophrenia in its earliest phase, making it very hard for people with the disorder to work, study or be social, according to a new study published by the ...
Delirium may cause rapid cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 04, 2009 |
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Alzheimer's disease patients who develop delirium, a sudden state of severe confusion and disorientation, are significantly more likely to experience rapid cognitive decline than Alzheimer's patients who didn't experience ...
