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Fish Oil Improves Toddler’s Hand-eye Coordinatio

...se included tests of language, behavior, practical reasoning and hand-eye coordination. In all, 72 children were assessed (33 in the fish oil group and 39 in the olive oil group). There were no significant overall differences in language skills and growth between the two groups of children. But those who...

Study Offers Window into Human Behavior, Brain Disease

...cial behavior and emotions – self awareness, moral reasoning and empathy – that are highly developed in humans, the finding suggests that the cells may play a role in what makes humans "human," they say. The cells, known as von Economo neurons, were first comprehensively described in 1925 by their Romanian-...

Non Drug Treatments may Help Cure Dementia

...e training showed immediate improvement in memory, reasoning and speed of processing. When the participants were tested five years later, the improvements had been sustained, the study said. There are an estimated 24 million people in the world with dementia and 4.6 million new cases are diagnosed each year....

“Binging is a Common Eating Disorder”, Says a Survy

...ating disorders. Uniform psychological pattern and reasoning were observed among the binge eaters. They all feel that they are not able to control their eating once food comes to their mind. A lot of factors like the genes and the environment contribute to bingeing. Some people can strictly resist food tempt...

Dogs Reasoning on Par With Human Toddlers: Study

...chers by showing that they are capable of advanced reasoning as much as human toddlers. The study, by Austrian researchers, shows that dogs behaviour is pretty sophisticated when it comes to a physical problem-solving test. The study started when researchers first observed how several children aged 14 mo...

Should Genetic Information Be Disclosed to Insurers?

... insurance, thereby forcing insurers to make their reasoning transparent. On the other side of the argument Professor Richard Ashcroft from the University of London says access to genetic information should not be allowed as it could lead to irrational discrimination. This arises, he says, from false beliefs...

Brain Cells Activity: New Treatment Target for Psychiatric Diseases

...-1 in the brain's prefrontal cortex, where complex reasoning and decisions about appropriate social behavior occur, he says. They also provide new treatment targets for psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and neurological disorders such as epilepsy, researchers say. The genes are both associated wit...

Some High Blood Pressure Drugs may Help Reduce Dementia Risk

..., a test that evaluates memory, language, abstract reasoning and other cognitive functions. For each year that participants were exposed to ACE inhibitors that cross the blood brain barrier, the decline in test results was 50 percent lower than the decline in people taking other kinds of high blood pressure pi...

Shambu With Bovine TB Being Prevented from Slaughter

...n Wales in Great Britain, are not impressed by the reasoning of the Wales health authorities. The bull is sacred for us. It is the vehicle of Lord Shiva. Don't touch it, they say. At the moment the government is not giving in. But one has to wait and see how the drama is played out. A routine bovine TB ...

Smoking Hampers Alcoholics' Neurocognitive Recovery During Abstinence

...cs in the areas of mental efficiency, higher-level reasoning and problem-solving, visual-spatial processing skills, and working or short-term memory, said Durazzo. Although smoking alcoholics in the study improved significantly in auditory-verbal memory and processing speed over six to nine months of abstin...

C -reactive Protein is the Marker for Cardiovascular Disease

...in the morning, completed tests to determine their reasoning and conceptual abilities. The results of the individual tests were aggregated into a General Conceptual Ability (GCA) score, with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 Of a total of 278 children who completed all phases of the evaluation, 73 ...

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