From the UCLA press release via Newswise: Cognitive loss and brain degeneration currently affect millions of adults, and the number will increase, given the population of aging baby boomers. Today, nearly 20 percent of people…
From the University of Texas Health Science Center press release: Older maternal and paternal age are jointly associated with having a child with autism, according to a recently published study led by researchers at The…
From the University of Maryland press release: What does love look like? A dozen roses delivered on an ordinary weekday? Breakfast in bed? Or just a knowing glance between lovers? While outward displays of love…
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release: Synaptic plasticity – the ability of the synaptic connections between the brain’s neurons to change and modify over time — has been shown to be a…
From the University of Colorado Boulder press release: Whether you are an athlete, a musician or a stroke patient learning to walk again, practice can make perfect, but more practice may make you more efficient,…
From the Stanford University press release: What if you could teach your brain to respond differently to things that make you feel sad, down or stressed out? What if doing that helped ward off depression?…
From the University of Haifa press release via MedicalXPress: Children showing difficulty carrying out routine actions, such as getting dressed, playing with particular types of games, drawing, copying from the board in school and even…
From the Brown University press release: Life shrouds most choices in mystery. Some people inch toward a comfortable enough spot and stick close to that rewarding status quo. Out to dinner, they order the usual.…
From the Elsevier press release: Mark Twain said, “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” Many smokers would agree that it’s difficult to…
From the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) press release via EurekAlert!: A team of researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have developed a web application to test the visual intelligence of Facebook…