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Sleep duration forecasts ADHD for school-aged children

Jan 28, 2020 by

Sleep duration forecasts ADHD for school-aged children

Researchers from Norway have found that how much a child sleeps may accurately predict whether they will have psychiatric disorder later in life including ADHD. The study followed children who were 6, 8, 10 and 12. The link was...

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Comic books can improve brain function

Jan 23, 2020 by

Comic books can improve brain function

Because comics use both images, words, sound effects, color, spatial layouts, panel composition and more, researchers say these multimodal cues can stimulate similar processes to the human brain mapping the world around it. Thanks to the brain taking in...

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Research shows some learning uses the whole brain

Jan 21, 2020 by

Research shows some learning uses the whole brain

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine used a laser-assisted imaging tool to discover what happens inside the neurons of mice that are learning something. They found that motor-based learning can occur in multiple areas of the brain, not just those...

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Heavy metal exposure combined with Alzheimer’s gene may impair cognition...

Jan 16, 2020 by

Heavy metal exposure combined with Alzheimer’s gene may impair cognition

Researchers from the environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health study’s mice to see what could trigger the symptoms of cognitive decline. They found that heavy metal exposure to cadmium, combined with...

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Belly fat may decrease mental flexibility with age

Jan 14, 2020 by

Belly fat may decrease mental flexibility with age

A study out of Iowa State University found that fluid intelligence tended to decrease with age in people with more abdominal fat. The study, which was done on thousands of middle-aged and older people, found that more body fat...

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How we learn things shapes our memory

Dec 30, 2019 by

How we learn things shapes our memory

New research shows that we have multiple networks in our brain to help us store learned knowledge or associations. Even if that part of the brain is damaged, the brain will still leave alternative mechanisms available for learning....

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