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·April 19, 2023·4 min read

Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words

Children with larger vocabularies look directly and quickly towards an object when learning new words, while those with smaller vocabularies look back and forth between objects and have a slower response time.

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·January 27, 2023·4 min read

Poor Literacy Linked to Worse Mental Health Worldwide

Poor literacy skills or being illiterate is associated with an increased risk of developing anxiety and depression, researchers say. Additionally, poor literacy is also linked to increased feelings of loneliness.

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·January 14, 2023·5 min read

Hormone Replacement Therapy Could Ward off Alzheimer’s Among At-Risk Women

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use was associated with better cognition, memory, and larger brain volume in women who carry the Alzheimer's associated APOE4 genetic variant.

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·August 24, 2022·3 min read

How the Sounds We Hear Help Us Predict How Things Feel

Sensory systems in the brain are closely interconnected, with regions that respond to touch also involved when we listen to specific sounds connected to touching certain objects.

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·May 30, 2022·4 min read

How Cranberries Could Improve Memory and Ward off Dementia

Older adults who consumed cranberries frequently as part of their diet saw improvements in episodic memory, neural function, and brain perfusion. Cranberry consumption was also linked to a significant decrease in LDL cholesterol. Findings reveal adding cranberries to the diet helps to improve memory and could protect against dementia.

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·May 4, 2022·5 min read

Fecal Transplants Reverse Hallmarks of Aging

Transplanting fecal microbiota from young mice to older mice reversed hallmark signs of aging in the gut, brains, and eyes. Transplanting the fecal microbiota from old to young mice had the reverse effect, inducing inflammation in the brain and depleting a key protein associated with healthy vision.

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·November 26, 2021·5 min read

Decluttering May Not Help People With Dementia

Findings suggest people with moderate Alzheimer's disease perform better at daily tasks when surrounded by their usual clutter.

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·September 28, 2021·6 min read

Children Who Eat More Fruit and Veg Have Better Mental Health

Children who regularly consume fruits and vegetables have better mental well-being than their peers who do not consume fresh fruit and vegetables. Those who eat five or more servings of fruits and veggies a day have a better overall mental well-being score, researchers report.

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·May 10, 2021·7 min read

Reading Minds to Understand Human Tool Use

Combining brain imaging data with machine learning, researchers make new discoveries about how the brain controls the hand. The findings could lead to the development of more advanced neuroprosthetics.

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·October 3, 2020·5 min read

Could a Fecal Transplant One Day Be the Secret of Eternal Youth?

Fecal transplants could someday be a useful tool to help improve cognitive decline associated with aging, a new study reports.

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·August 5, 2020·5 min read

Understanding Why Some Children Enjoy TV More Than Others

Brain responses of ten-month-old babies could predict whether the child would enjoy watching fast-paced television shows six months later.

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·February 29, 2020·7 min read

Omega-3 fats do not protect against cancer

Studies reveal there is no demonstrable value in people taking omega 3 oil supplements for the prevention or treatment of cancer. Findings reveal there may be a slightly increased risk of men developing prostate cancer following long-term omega 3 consumption.