In a new study published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke, older, non-disabled people who regularly engaged in physical activity reduced their risk of vascular-related dementia by 40 percent and cognitive impairment of any etiology by 60 percent.
The protective effect of regular physical activity remained regardless of age, ...
Date Posted: November 2, 2012
Categories: Dementia
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We all know that rejection seriously hurts -- and now a new study shows how it could actually be bad for our health.
Scientists from the University of British Columbia, Brandeis University and the University of California, Los Angeles have found ...
Nov 2
GOResearch finds that a statement in the presence of images or other additional information enhances people’s feelings of truthiness, even when they don’t provide any evidence the statement is true. This is especially important in the context of ...
Nov 1
GOIn the largest prospective study to date of children with early and later manifestation of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) compared to children without ASD, researchers found two distinct patterns of language, social and motor development in the ...
Nov 1
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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The importance of pitch in music is obvious. In speech too, communication of emotion depends on changing pitch, known as 'speech prosody'.
"We all know people who have difficulty perceiving tone of voice. They just don't get it when we're being ...
Nov 1
GOChildren’s voices come to life in animation as they describe symptoms of ADHD and what it’s like to have treatment.
Oct 31
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Employees who are more satisfied with their pay report lower levels of work-family conflict, a study by a University of Illinois labor and employment relations professor shows.
A worker’s actual salary is as important as pay satisfaction in ...
Oct 31
Categories: Career Development and Change, Family Problems
GOTreating alcoholism is incredibly difficult on many levels. One of the most difficult areas to deal with is social interaction, how people with alcoholism can interact with others. Alcoholics can have many problems with social exclusion. This is ...
Oct 31
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I met Moraitis on Ikaria this past July during one of my visits to explore the extraordinary longevity of the island’s residents. For a decade, with support from the National Geographic Society, I’ve been organizing a study of the places where ...
Oct 30
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An international team led by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York has for the first time shown that one area of the brain, called the anterior insular cortex, is the activity center of human empathy, whereas other areas of the ...
Oct 30
Categories: Empathy
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A new study implies that parents, perhaps naturally so, are positively biased toward their child’s abilities and emotions.
Psychologists at the Center for Mind and Brain, at the University of California, Davis, discovered parents consistently ...
Oct 30
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An intensive early intervention therapy that is effective for improving cognition and language skills among very young children with autism also normalizes their brain activity, decreases their autism symptoms and improves their social skills, a ...
Oct 29
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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With the rise of credit cards, PayPal and other ways of transferring cash electronically, real cash-money is in decline. Like CDs and books before it, the folding stuff looks certain to be another victim of technological advances.
But not just ...
Oct 29
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One in three former political prisoners of the GDR still suffers from sleeping disorders, nightmares and irrational fear. Professor Andreas Maercker from the University of Zurich and PD Matthias Schützwohl from Dresden University of Technology ...
Oct 29
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
GOConverging scientific evidence tells us that self-control is an important ability. It helps us keep our cool, get things done, and resist the things that tempt us. Numerous studies have found evidence for the idea of self-control as a limited ...
Oct 27
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Children with serious anger problems can be helped by a simple video game that hones their ability to regulate their emotions, finds a pilot study at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Noticing that children with anger control problems are often ...
Oct 27
Categories: Anger Management, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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