From the Indiana University School of Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: Delirium, a common acute condition with significant short- and long-term effects on cognition and function, should be identified as an indicator of poor long-term…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: You’re waiting in the reception area of your doctor’s office. The magazines are uninteresting. The pictures on the wall are dull. The second hand on the wall…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken one of the first detailed looks into how Alzheimer’s disease disrupts coordination among several…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Spending too much time looking at high heels may influence how a viewer perceives the gender of an androgynous face, according to new research published…
From the Cornell University press release via EurekAlert!: For more than 50 years, language scientists have assumed that sentence structure is fundamentally hierarchical, made up of small parts in turn made of smaller parts, like…
From the George Washington University press release: Research comparing brain development in humans and our closest nonhuman primate relatives, chimpanzees, reveals how quickly myelin in the cerebral cortex grows, shedding light on the evolution of…
From the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory press release via EurekAlert!: A team of neuroscientists and chemists from the U.S. and China today publish research suggesting that a class of currently used anti-cancer drugs as well…
From the Arizona State University press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists at Arizona State University have discovered that ants utilize a strategy to handle “information overload.” Temnothorax rugatulus ants, commonly found living in rock crevices in…
From the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania press release via ScienceDaily: A syndrome called “post-operative cognitive decline” has been coined to refer to the commonly reported loss of cognitive abilities, usually…
From the University of Montreal press release via EurekAlert!: Each year in Quebec, nearly 6000 people undergo coronary bypass surgery. Recovery is long and quality of life is greatly affected, in particular because most patients…