From the University of Jyväskylä press release: There is a tendency to highlight the importance of cognitive achievements and the family’s socioeconomic background for people’s success in the future, but this study shows that children’s self-regulation,…
From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: A new study from the Center for Vital Longevity at The University of Texas at Dallas has found that the amount of amyloid plaques in a person’s…
From the JAMA Network Journals press release: Among a group of cognitively normal individuals, those who had elevated levels in the brain of the protein amyloid were more likely to experience cognitive decline in the…
From the National University of Singapore press release: People tend to become more generous as they age. This certainly holds true when it comes to helping strangers, according to a recent study by researchers from…
From the Boston University Medical Center press release: In one of the largest studies to date to use metabolomics, the study of compounds that are created through various chemical reactions in the body, researchers have been…
From the University of Miami press release: The brain is a complex organ — a network of nerve cells, or neurons, producing thought, memory, action, and feeling. How does this complex system change from childhood…
From the Nagoya University press release: Researchers at Nagoya University reveal that eating in front of a mirror — or even with a picture of yourself eating — makes food more appealing. People rate food as…
From the Keck Medicine of USC press release: Long before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease become apparent to patients and their families, biological changes are occurring within the brain. Amyloid plaques, which are clusters of protein fragments,…
From the University of Plymouth press release: A research team from the University of Plymouth, University of Southampton and the Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center, Vari, Greece, have studied two structurally-similar proteins in the…
From the Loyola University Health System press release: A Loyola University Chicago study has found that abnormal proteins found in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease all share a similar ability to cause damage when…