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Physical activity less among black girls

...s substantially declines through adolescence. The reasoning for the low levels of physical activity in adolescent girls was done by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. They used information collected for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth 2,000 black and white gir...

Quality of lives of older people

...ent the person, the better their skills in memory, reasoning and understanding. These mental skills are, of course, key to remaining independent. Further analysis, say the researchers, will provide important pointers to how physical and mental function changes with age, and how people's needs can best be met....

Radiation Exposure Found To Affect Intellect Later In Life

...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 intellectual development. They say CT scans, w...

Lifestyle changes Can Delay the Onset Of Dementia

...have a stroke. A good way to avoid the memory and reasoning problems characteristic of dementia might be to make lifestyle changes now aimed at avoiding stroke, say researchers who followed participants in a long-running study. Results suggest people who have a stroke are twice as likely to develop dementia a...

Lifestyle changes Can Delay the Onset Of Dementia

...have a stroke. A good way to avoid the memory and reasoning problems characteristic of dementia might be to make lifestyle changes now aimed at avoiding stroke, say researchers who followed participants in a long-running study. Results suggest people who have a stroke are twice as likely to develop dementia a...

Lifestyle changes Can Delay the Onset Of Dementia

...have a stroke. A good way to avoid the memory and reasoning problems characteristic of dementia might be to make lifestyle changes now aimed at avoiding stroke, say researchers who followed participants in a long-running study. Results suggest people who have a stroke are twice as likely to develop dementia a...

Understanding The Harmful Effects Of Radiation Exposure

...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 intellectual development. They say CT scans, w...

Zinc increases thinking power of children

...lated to increased attention capability, increased reasoning ability, and better psychomotor functions. For 540...perceptions better, as well as showing increase in reasoning and dexterity. Zinc supplements were associated with remembering objects and complex shapes better w...

Yet Another Reason To Celebrate Drinking

...roups were subjected to questions regarding verbal reasoning to tests of short-term memory and teetotalers were twice as likely as occasional drinkers to achieve the lowest scores. This does not necessarily show moderate alcohol use is good for our brains - there may be other reasons we haven't measured to ex...

Attention Breakdown Is The Harbinger Of Alzheimer's Disease

...he cannot remember words and his social skills and reasoning start fading. Participants for the study were drawn from volunteers at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Washington University. The researchers studied 94 older participants, average age mid-70s, who were healthy control individuals or ind...

With a healthy heart stick to the wild salmon

...wild salmon is better than farmed salmon // . The reasoning put forth is that although farmed salmon is richer in omega 3 fatty acids it also has a large amount of chemical contaminants. These chemicals are known to be a cause of cancer, memory impairment and neurobehavioral changes in children. The study ...

New drug compound to treat Alzheimer’s diseas

...mage to brain cells which leads to loss of memory, reasoning ability and the capacity to read and understand decreases, they become increasingly forgetting, disoriented in their approach and will develop problems in solving mathematical problems. The researchers found that this compound inhibits cytokines not ...

High Blood Pressure Leads to Rusting of Cognitive Skills

...alth of the brain as well. Cognitive// skills like reasoning and ability to learn decrease with age and lead to Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. However, regular exercise, social contact and intellectual pursuits have been shown to delay the onset of the disease, according to Dr. Hugh C. Hendrie...

Know The Brain Behind The Human Growth Hormone!

...ntists also doubt the effect of growth hormones on reasoning and mood which may be altered by the differences in the amount of growth hormone in the brain. Co-author Ken S. Kosik, co-director of the Neuroscience Research Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara said,"Growth hormone has been asso...

Moderate Intake of Alcohol Beneficial to Women

...ficial as it increases the concentration, abstract reasoning and verbal skills in women, says a study though researchers say these results must be interpreted with caution//. Mark Espeland and colleagues at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in the US studied more than 7,000 older women and fo...

The sleep race: White, wealthy, and sleep-wise

...n sleeping pattern among races, with no scientific reasoning yet for this occurring. The findings have been published in the current issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. ...

"Active" Brain Makes Rational Decisions!!

...to incorporate their emotions into a more balanced reasoning process. Mr Benedetto de Martino, of the UCL Institute of Neurology, says: "It is well known that human choices are affected by the way in which a question is phrased. For example, saying an operation carries an 80 per cent survival rate may trigge...

Effects Of Autism On Brain Much Wider Than Presumed

... dealing with communication, social behaviour, and reasoning it had been once thought.// A new study by the C...nformation on sensory, motor, language, memory and reasoning areas, but remained unaffected in the more basic sensory abilities such as touch, pain, position and...

Spices in curries spruce up aging minds

...s of curries in different forms show better memory reasoning judgment thinking and speech on standard tests. The beneficial element of curries has been traced to the yellow spice ‘turmeric’ which is well known as a powerful anti inflammatory and anti oxidant traditionally - a must have in every Indian home. T...

The 70 and Above Would Do Well With Brain Training, to Maintain Mental Agility

...ly allocated six-week training sessions on memory, reasoning and quick mental processing. Tests were conducted ...almost 90% of the speed training group, 74% of the reasoning group and 26% of the memory group portrayed immense improvement during mental ability tests which la...

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