Memory for music: Musicians don't have to hear themselves perform after they learn a song
...ted interference tasks caused worse recall than did the arithmetic task. "This suggest...d. "Music interference caused worse recall than arithmetic interference." A third experiment tested whether hearin...Many pregnant women may have depression, but few getting treatment, study finds
...has also shown that babies of depressed mothers do worse at birth, and beyond, than other infants. "A woman's childbearing years are also her highest-risk time for depression. Doctors used to think of pregnancy as a 'honeymoon' away from depression risk, but this is turning out to be a myth," says lead aut...No detectable risk from mercury in seafood, study shows
...e hyperactive, and sons of such women did slightly worse on a pegboard task. Statistically, both findings are likely due to chance, the researchers say. The Seychelles findings apply to fish bought and sold commercially, at grocery stores, supermarkets, seafood markets, and restaurants. Those fish are alr...Anti-HIV drugs save vision, improve outlook for AIDS patients
...iagnosed CMV retinitis groups scored substantially worse in vision-related quality of life than the group w...with newly diagnosed CMV retinitis tended to score worse on the general health-related quality of life scale....Gene enhances prefrontal function at a price
...t people with met/met on amphetamine would perform worse and their frontal lobes would function less effici...aseline. Met/met subjects on amphetamine performed worse than subjects with val/val at baseline. These results fit a model in which dopamine activity needs...UI researchers discover new cause of muscular dystrophies
...ped a muscular dystrophy, which gets progressively worse with age. However, treadmill tests revealed that the muscles of mice that lack dysferlin were not much more susceptible to damage than the muscles of normal mice. This contrasts with most muscular dystrophies of known cause where genetic mutations we...Roads pave the way for weed invasions
...weeds, one new study shows that improved roads are worse thanprimitive ones, while another suggests that roadless areas act asrefuges for native species against invasions. Cheatgrass, knapweeds and other non-native plants have invaded nearly125 million acres of the American West. Roads promote invasionbeca...Executive functioning in children prenatally exposed to alcohol
.... The children in the alcohol-exposed group had a worse TI performance than the children in the control group. This effect persisted even after controlling for prenatal drug exposure, postnatal environmental factors, and child verbal IQ. "A key finding of this study is the suggestion that consuming les...Catastrophic decline of Africa's apes, Nature says
...ries in the region have higher human densities and worse deforestation than Gabon. An outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Gabon nearly a decade ago may have wiped out tens of thousands of gorillas and chimps. The disease has emerged again more recently in Gabon and the Congo with gorillas and chimpanz...Paving roads can increase weed invasions
...sive weeds, new research shows that some roads are worse than others. In Utah, areas along paved roads were far more likely to be invaded than those along 4-wheel-drive tracks. This suggests that limiting road improvements would help keep out invasive weeds. "Each step of road improvement would appear to c...Oxygen deficiency is an endocrine disruptor in fish
...nd global warming, the problem is likely to become worse in the coming years." Hypoxia has been implicated in fish kills around the globe, from the Caspian Sea to the Gulf of Mexico where an area of hypoxia forms during the summer months that can cover more than 6,000 square miles, according to the Envir...Gene mutation exacerbates eye defect in inherited glaucoma
...s that albino mice lacking Cyp1b1 appeared to show worse pathology than pigmented mice. A series of genetic crosses of various mice by Libby and his colleagues produced strains of mice whose only difference was the presence or absence of pigmentation. The researchers ultimately pinpointed the key modifier ...Researchers identify new gene mutation in glaucoma
...s that albino mice lacking Cyp1b1 appeared to show worse pathology than pigmented mice. A series of genetic crosses of various mice by Libby and his colleagues produced strains of mice whose only difference was the presence or absence of pigmentation. The researchers ultimately pinpointed the key modifier ...Scientists urge managers to limit use of destructive fishing gears
...ur ocean floors is more extensive and perhaps even worse than tropical deforestation," says Norse. "We must bring these issues to the forefront of fisheries management before it is too late." How we fish matters Experts agree that not all fishing gears are equal. New work presented by Lance Morgan of the...High-density storage of nuclear waste heightens terrorism risks
... could cause contamination problems "significantly worse than those from Chernobyl," the study found. The study authors, a multi-institutional team of researchers led by Frank von Hippel of Princeton, called on the U.S. Congress to mandate the construction of new facilities to house spent fuel in less risk...Science picks -- leads, feeds and story seeds (February 2003)
... faces water-quality problems, but they aren't any worse than those in other similarly urban rivers, according to a new USGS study. As a matter of fact, the quality of the Lower Charles River water can be considered good--it meets water-quality standards and guidelines during dry weather. The problems in ...Invading weeds escaped old enemies, brought immunity
... year to the U.S. economy, but the damage would be worse were it not for our native fungi and viruses that ...s helping to prevent invasive plants from becoming worse pests to humanity -- without any subsidy from humans."...High sugar blood levels linked to poor memory
...sugar levels) had a smaller hippocampus and scored worse on tests for recent memory. "We have demonstrated that impaired glucose regulation is associated with memory dysfunction and shrinkage of the hippocampus," says Antonio Convit, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director for t...Common pediatric anesthesia drugs cause brain damage and learning and memory problems in infant rats
...ad been anesthetized in infancy were significantly worse than those that had not been given the standard anesthesia drug combination. The researchers also examined brain slices from the hippocampus of month-old rats. They ran electrical currents through those slices to induce a process known as long-term ......brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) performed worse on tests of episodic memory tasks like recalling what happened yesterday. They also showed differences in activation of the hippocampus, a brain area known to mediate memory, and signs of decreased neuronal health and interconnections. These effect...