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Next time somebody complains about your strange behavior, take it as a compliment

...t this bilateral use of the brain for a variety of tasks may be related to their enhanced creativit....

Teens not interested in early sleep

...e children for adult lifestyles and for performing tasks under sleep deficits that are common in adults of modern societies.” ...

Attention Breakdown Is The Harbinger Of Alzheimer's Disease

...the journal Neuropsychology, suggests that routine tasks that require the shifting of attention, such as dr...rly-stage patients start to struggle with everyday tasks that call for processing a lot of information, such as drivin....

Watching Violent, Churning Movie Scenes Affect Problem-Solving Ability

...them to combine movie viewing with problem-solving tasks to assess the effects of stress on cognitive flexibility. The researchers juxtaposed two very different movies - 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Shrek' - to induce stress or set up a control condition before testing participants for verbal mental flexibi...

Stress Is A Factor In Cholesterol Level

...ll. So the larger cholesterol responders to stress tasks will be large responders to emotional situations in their lives." The researchers added: "It is these responses in everyday life that accumulate to lead to an increase in fasting cholesterol or lipid levels three years later. It appears that a perso...

Study Suggests Filtering Out Useless Information To Enhance Memory

...nds of volunteers. While people performed computer tasks asking them to remember arrays of coloured squares or rectangles, their brain activity was recorded. Participants were told to hold in their mind two red rectangles while ignoring two blue ones. It was found that without exception, every individual ...

Paralyzed Patients Can Be Trained To Walk With Robotic Treadmill

...trial revealed a progress in completion of certain tasks such as flexion of ankles. An enhancement in the blood flow to the cerebellum was also evident from the images obtained through MRI. A certain threshold level of change was required in the cerebellum for an increased ability to walk. The researcher...

New Chair Invented To Relieve Backache

...s show that it reduces pain and boosts accuracy in tasks performed while sitting down. It could have implications for thousands of employees who spend most of their time seated at a desk. The chair is so shaped that the pelvis, which supports the upper body, is tilted forward. Most chairs allow the pelvi...

Driving While Using A Mobile Phone May Be Dangerous

...Psychology Mei-Ching Lien. This includes simple tasks also. The studies that Mei-Ching Lien conducted in association with her NASA Ames Research Center colleagues reveal that humans have a fundamental inability when it comes to switching over from one task to another. The Journal of Experimental Psychol...

Smoking Causes Eye Disease

...s with higher levels of smoking, which will affect tasks // like driving and reading which require fine central vision. About 435 people who suffered from end stage macular degeneration were studied along with the partners who lived with them. It was also found that it was the amount smoked rather than ...

Unregulated Fish Industry Harms Health Of Women

...Indian Science Congress. Handling all sorts of tasks from slicing, shelling to hardening and processing a variety of marine products, including squids and seaweed, these women soon become prone to all sorts of health problems. The problems range from back pain and protein related asthma to Raynaud's Ph...

Ataxia: a problematic disease's gene deciphered

...coordination resulting in difficulty with everyday tasks such as walking, speech, and writing in Ataxia and about 1 in 17,000 people have a genetic form of ataxia. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) is a dominant gene disorder; if a parent has the disease, each of their children has a 50 percent chance...

San Diego Zoo Prepares Itself Against Bird Flu

...orities have realized that all the above-mentioned tasks would demand a huge deal of money. ‘Ninety percent of what we plan to do if is an influenza outbreak, we've done for Newcastle, said Donald Janssen, the zoo's director of veterinary medicine. ...

Older Adults Get Distracted More Easily

...hen compared to the younger group. When all the tasks were taken into consideration, older brains displa...vity on hand. This may involve not undertaking two tasks simultaneously. The level of education also plays a strong role where staying focused is concerned. ...

Autism: Symposium to Discuss Myths and Misconceptions

...at scientists connect perceptions of the mind with tasks that require a high level of linguistic capability. According to her, since autistic children are deficient in communication skills, mind games or the theory of the mind is puzzling with autistic people. "I think we as a society fall prey to a slippe...

Emotional Engagement of Husband - A Final Answer To What Women Want

...nsitive enough to appreciate inequality in routine tasks and efforts, this is something that might probably be ignored, provided they are emotionally satisfied. More importantly, husbands need to be attuned to their partner's feelings about both marriage and their relationship in general. Much spoken about...

Attempting Of Suicide In Children Of Men With Stressful Job Is High

...the level of responsibility, control over everyday tasks and time constraints, which govern levels of stress. The results of the study showed that 250 of the approximately 20,000 children in the study attempted or committed suicide over the 15-year period from 1985 to 2001. Fathers' work conditions whi...

Genetic Experts of Hopkins Assists In Identifying Hurricane Katrina Victims

...as 16 unique genetic markers. "One of our major tasks is to contact the families of those still reported missing and to obtain the DNA samples that will give us the best chance to identify their loved one," says Bailey-Wilson. But Johnson takes a much more simple view of her potential and willingness...

Manic Ecstasy: Man gets Into a Frenzy after a Record Consumption of 40,000 ecstasy tablets

...d that he was unable to follow the sequence of the tasks required.” These findings only corroborate the restricted knowledge available about the repercussions of large and regular doses of ecstasy use. ...

Medicare Benefits For Patients seeking Psychiatric Help

...shes. The aim is to help them to perform the basic tasks of daily living, the stuff most people take for granted such as cooking, shopping or simply going out. More money he said would be available for telephone and internet counselling, such as the Kids Help Line and Lifeline Australia, and more money for...

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