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Overweight Kids At Risk Of Being Iron Deficient

...in the world. It has been linked to behavioral and learning problems among children and adolescents,// increased risks for pre-term and small infants among pregnant women, and problems with work and exercise capacity among adults. Overweight children and adolescents also appear to have an increased iron defi...

Kids with Congenital Heart Disease Found To Have Low I.Q Levels

... congenital heart disease are at a higher risk for learning problems later on in childhood, but correctly iden...pful in determining which children are at risk for learning problems in childhood....

Understanding The Harmful Effects Of Radiation Exposure

... significant dose-related response was observed in learning ability tests and logical reasoning tests. However, this response was not observed in spatial recognition tests. Researchers say young children who undergo computed tomography (CT) scans for minor head injuries may be at risk for adverse intellectu...

New Treatment Option For Alzheimer's Disease

...roves memory in long-term potential and contextual learning -- two measurements of brain function.According to researchers Rolipram works by modifying gene expression, making brain synapses more resistant to the damage caused by accumulating beta amyloid. Results showed rolipram's protective benefit lasted a...

New Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease

...roves memory in long-term potential and contextual learning -- two measurements of brain function. Rolipram works by modifying gene expression, making brain synapses more resistant to the damage caused by accumulating beta amyloid. Results have shown that rolipram's protective benefit lasted for two months a...

Acupunture relieves pain and improves function in knee Osteoarthritis

...d patients from seeing the knee treatment area and learning which treatment they received. In the education control group, 189 participants attended six, 2-hour group sessions over 12 weeks based on the Arthritis Foundation's Arthritis Self-Help Course, a proven, effective model. ,br>On joining the study,...

Dyslexia Gene Identified and Called "KIAA0319"

...n that has been identified as the leading cause of learning disability in children....

Baby Talking Is Good For Your Child

...le not to use baby talk as it may lead to delay in learning how to speak a language. Now research shows that m...lking. The researchers are of the opinion that by learning to recognize words in the infant directed speech; babies have a better chance of learning the langua...

Study reveals that it is easy for people to learn from watching others learn

...tasks to a group of people. When the video of this learning process was shown to a group, they learned to do t...worse manner. The researchers have concluded that learning to acquire a new skill is not based on conscious thinking but is more due to implicit meeting of neu...

Chemicals in clear plastics can cause learning difficulties

... BPA contamination may give birth to children with learning difficulties. Long term exposure to BPA in the elderly may lead to age-related neuro-degenerative diseases for example Alzheimer disease, which is also related to inhibited function of the hippocampus...

New gene therapy for Alzheimer’

... memory, ability to reason, creative abilities and learning powers. One of the main features of this disease is the destruction of cholinergic neurons. The new trials target a genetic change in the nerve growth factor. Nerve growth factor (NGF) stimulates cholinergic function, improves memory and prevents ch...

New ways developed to understand dyslexia

...n anything else. Dyslexia is one type of specific learning disability. It commonly affects the children, who have difficulty in verbal skills, abstract reasoning, hand-eye coordination, concentration, perception, memory and social adjustment. Misinformation send by neurons are what causes the problems of p...

Research finds new explanations for dyslexia

... the workings of a dyslexic brain. Dyslexia is a learning disorder in an otherwise healthy person. A dyslexic child may have the condition lifelong, although trained helpers may help the child to some extent in coping with classroom work. The study had found that dyslexic children and normal children perfo...

Alcohol linked to loss of memory

...y for a short time can affect your memory and your learning //capabilities. A new study done on mice says tha...these are global deficits that affect all sorts of learning abilities. The results also show that the nature of cognitive impairments is not related to any sort...

Gum inflammation increases the risk of Alzheimer’

... memory, ability to reason, creative abilities and learning powers. Researchers had studied identical twins in finding out the risk of Alzheimer’s, as previous studies have established that Alzheimer’s disease may be hereditary by nature. They had measured the incidence of gum disease from the incidence of l...

Sleep more to improve your memory

...inger movements. In the twelve-hour span after the learning the subjects were allowed to stay awake or sleep, ...eep helped the participants in consolidating their learning experience. Researchers are hopeful that their findings will be able to help children and other lea...

Researchers reversed the process of memory loss

... memory, ability to reason, creative abilities and learning powers. Millions of people all over the world suffer from the two conditions, and the new research findings may make them easier to fit into normal life. Reference: Science, July 205...

Patients With Alzheimer’s Need To Be Checked For Visual Clarit

... memory, ability to reason, creative abilities and learning powers. Patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease are often disoriented too much to be able to take notice of the vision impairment. The New Saint Louis University researchers who have conducted a survey of people suffering from Alzheimer’s said t...

Regular Use Of Cocaine Can Impair Brain Functions

...addiction can severely affect brain functions like learning and impulsive behavior.// The research, which w...es. The cocaine was producing a deficit in their learning response strategy, said a researcher. Researchers say this study may explain why cocaine addicts a...

Treatment May Be Possible For Degenerative Brain And Spinal Cord Disease

... memory, ability to reason, creative abilities and learning powers. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/alzheimers_about.htm...

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