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March 31, 2015 8:25 PM
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Uncertainty is an unavoidable part of life but for many people, it triggers harmful levels of stress. The good news is that there are a number of things you can do to handle uncertainty better.
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March 31, 2015 5:07 PM
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Tea boosts connections between frontal and parietal regions of the brain.
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March 31, 2015 5:04 PM
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Even if you are already in middle age or later, the study has some good news.
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March 31, 2015 5:02 PM
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Just two daily servings containing vital nutrients is enough to reduce brain age by 11 years.
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March 19, 2015 1:20 AM
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An Indiana University cognitive scientist and collaborators have found that posture is critical in the early stages of acquiring new knowledge.
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March 10, 2015 10:52 PM
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Some studies highlight similarities between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and healthy aging. Indeed, the decline in older individuals’ ability to create a unified representation of the individual features of an event is thought to arise from a disruption of integration within the episodic buffer of working memory as the same way as observed in ASD. In both cases, this deficit may result from an abnormal engagement of a frontohippocampal network. The objective of the present study is to identify both cognitive processes and neural substrates associated to the deficit of integration in healthy aging. We studied the capacity of integration and the cognitive processes that might mediate its decline in 72 healthy participants aged 18-84 years. We confronted the behavioral data to the changes in brain metabolism associated with the age-related decline in a subgroup of 34 healthy participants aged 20-77 years using the resting-state [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET). Forward stepwise regression analyses showed that the age-related decline in binding was partially explained by a decline in inhibition and processing speed. PET correlation analyses indicated that metabolism of the medial frontal regions, anterior and middle cingulate cortices is implicated in this phenomenon. These data suggest that executive functions and processing speed may play a crucial rule in the capacity to integrate unified representations in memory in aging. Possible implications are discussed in ASD.
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March 10, 2015 9:40 PM
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Most of us know that obesity is a growing problem across the globe but would you call it a disease? While it may seem like a semantic debate, it is actually a serious issue with major implications.
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March 10, 2015 12:55 AM
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The evolution of science and engineering in the 21st century has transformed the role of these professions in profound ways that affect research, scholarship and the practice of teaching in the university…
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March 10, 2015 12:51 AM
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When controversial research is questioned, it's worth asking if it's for the right reasons.
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February 19, 2015 6:16 PM
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Researchers in the United States are turning to big data analytics to gain a much better understanding of paediatric brain cancer and other diseases with a similar genetic process.
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February 12, 2015 8:30 PM
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Find out why it's important for leaders to understand how people feel about the freedom they have and their relationships at work.
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March 31, 2015 6:43 PM
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The pathway to academic success is not always about the number of papers you've published. Some have found that a sense of humour can be just as useful.
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March 31, 2015 5:06 PM
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Study finds that irregular bedtimes at 3-years-old predict lower cognitive performance four years later.
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March 31, 2015 5:03 PM
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Even following the MIND diet 'moderately' reduced Alzheimer's disease risk by 35%.
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March 25, 2015 1:57 AM
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March 16, 2015 6:44 AM
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Two-thirds of parents concerned about their child's speech don't act on their concerns. Why?
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March 10, 2015 9:41 PM
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Doctors groups have warned the Coalition government's plan to maintain the Medicare rebate freeze will means patients will have to pay more for medical services.
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March 10, 2015 5:35 AM
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The research excellence of academics is often measured by the quantity and quality of their scholarly publications. But how do we know that all authors listed on a publication have actually been involved…
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March 10, 2015 12:54 AM
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Chances are you’ve heard of Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments. In 1961, Milgram recruited pairs of volunteers to take part in a “memory test”. One volunteer was given the job of teacher, the other…
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March 5, 2015 6:02 PM
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I have a recent interest in both Growth Mindsets and Maker Education; and have blogged and presented on both of these topics. As such and because of my passion for both of these area, I have been ...
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Cursive handwriting will be scrapped from the Finnish education curriculum and replaced by lessons in keyboard typing, it has been announced.
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