New Book Says Cross-Train Your Brain To Increase Mental Function
... Katz emphasizes that "neurobics" is not about doing puzzles orbrain-teasers, but about using the full ...ing because you're doingsomething about it; you're doing something that actively engages your brain." As evidence that such neurobic "cross-training"...A Note of Caution: Be Careful When Mixing Grapefruit Juice With Rxs
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...y and explaining what would happen, sometimes even doing atrial run so they knew exactly what to expect," Lee said. The investigators also made certain the children could spell and generate wordsin their heads without moving their mouths, which causes head movements thatruin images. The brain's language ar...Female Soccer Players Perform Best On A High-Fat Diet, UB Study Finds
...kilometers farther before reachingexhaustion while doing very-high-speed intermittent exercise when on thehigh-fat diet, compared to the lower-fat diets," said Horvath. "That is reallya striking difference. "Women are better fat metabolizers than men. Our earlier dietary studieswith male and fem...New Book Looks At Those Who Examine Our Sex Lives
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... plays a critical role in memory processing. After doing its job, acetylcholine is normally inactivated by enzymes calledcholinesterases, which come in two forms and are found throughout the body. Thefirst, acetylcholinesterase (AChE), works at nerve endings; current Alzheimer'sdisease drugs aim to tempor...... at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health are doing great work tobuild a program that will put in place permanently the resources to save thelives of hundreds of thousands of women each year." Every minute of every day, a woman in Asia, Africa or Latin America diesas a result of complications ......everaged both patients'and physicians' time and in doing so, made patients' treatment choices andoutcomes clearer," Esserman says. "Patients felt reassured that their questionsand concerns were being addressed and answered, their stress was reduced, andability to listen improved." She notes that the techn...Ph.D. Degree Research Results In Patent For Low-Cost Pharmaceutical Filters Made From Seafood Waste
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...work so hard to make them feel better but, despite doing well, they still die suddenly. Knowing in advance which patients are at risk will allow us to avoid these deaths, which will make a huge difference," Smith said. In the latest set of studies at Washington University, Smith's group studied 60 patient...Success of plasma centers could hurt Red Cross, study finds
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...ine a physically ill person's mental state, and in doing so were askedto judge their competency to request a hastened death. To ascertain howpsychologists felt about this role and to study the practical problems in makingsuch judgements, psychologist Darien S. Fenn, Ph.D., of the Oregon HealthSciences Uni...UMass researchers teaching computers to interpret MRIs
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...oblems had to be the tests. Maybe the testsweren't doing the job." To overcome some of the limitations of existing reading assessments, UIresearchers developed their own test based on the Chapman-Cook Speed of ReadingTest, originally created in the 1920s to determine silent reading speed andcomprehension i...