From the University of Cambridge press release: A report out today examines the factors that influence ‘maths anxiety’ among primary and secondary school students, showing that teachers and parents may inadvertently play a role in…
From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville press release: IQ in childhood is a better indicator of adult wealth than math for very preterm and very low-weight babies, according to a new study in PLOS ONE.…
From the Arizona State University press release: Avid hikers know to be cautious of plants with leaves made up of three leaflets if they are red in the spring or fall. Parents worldwide know the…
From the University of Southern California press release: A diet containing compounds found in green tea and carrots reversed Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in mice genetically programmed to develop the disease, USC researchers say. Researchers emphasize that…
From the University of Rochester Medical Center press release: New research shows how the depth of sleep can impact our brain’s ability to efficiently wash away waste and toxic proteins. Because sleep often becomes increasingly…
From the University of Gothenburg press release: Keeping physically and mentally active in middle age may be tied to a lower risk of developing dementia decades later, according to a study published in the medical…
From the University of Birmingham press release: ‘Night owls’ — those who go to bed and get up later — have fundamental differences in their brain function compared to ‘morning larks’, which mean they could…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: New research published in JNeurosci reports features of the brain in musicians with absolute, or perfect, pitch (AP) that likely enable individuals with this rare ability — shared by Mozart,…
From the American Physiological Society press release: New research suggests that the relationship between physical and brain fitness varies in older adults by virtue of their sex. The study is published ahead of print in…
From the Elsevier press release: Patients with psychosis have accelerated aging of two brain networks important for general cognition — the frontoparietal network (FPN) and cingulo-opercular network (CON) — according to a new study in Biological…