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People with mild cognitive impairment more likely to regain memory: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A study has found that older persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a common type of memory loss, were 30 per cent more likely to regain normal cognition if they had taken in positive beliefs about aging from their culture, compared to those who had taken in negative beliefs.
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Study finds how obstructive sleep apnea can cause early cognitive decline
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disorder that could be harmful. People with OSA repeatedly cease breathing while they sleep because their throat muscles relax and restrict the airway to their lungs. The severely incapacitating symptoms of OSA for both patients and their partners include r
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Depression accelerates aging in older people: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to studies from the UConn Center on Aging, older persons who struggle with depression really age more quickly than their contemporaries.
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Remembering recent meal might help check food consumption: Research
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The 'meal-recall effect', or remembering a recent meal, might restrict how much food a person consumes later. Researchers from the University of Cambridge investigated the effect on meal-recall of believing that a recent meal was twice as big and gratifying as reality or recalling a recent m
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Honey bees use social learning to enhance their waggle dance: Study
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and the University of California San Diego demonstrated in a study published in Science that honey bees use social signal learning to increase their capacity to waggle dance.
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Imagining recent meal as larger than reality might reduce snacking: Resear
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The 'meal-recall effect,' or recalling a recent meal, can limit the amount of food a person would consume later. The effect on meal-recall effect of believing that a recent meal was twice as big and satisfying as reality or recalling a recent meal in detail was explored by researchers from t
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An insight into brain disorders and human cognition
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Computer modelling was used by National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers to find mutations in the human genome that are likely to have changed how human intelligence evolved. This groundbreaking human genomics study may advance our understanding of human health and pave the way for the
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Researchers reveal children for tough problems use same brain network as a
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A new study has discovered that children as early as four years old had indications of a network in the brain present in adults that deals with tough cognitive challenges
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Researchers give new insight into human cognition, origins of brain disord
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) employed computer modelling to identify mutations in the human genome that are likely to have altered the evolution of human intellect. This pioneering human genomics study might lead to a greater knowledge of human health and the deve
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New technology helpful in better visualization of cerebellum: Study
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The cerebellum, or our little brain, is primarily in charge of our motor skills. In addition, structure is important for behaviour and cognition. The cerebellum is a part of your brain that is located at the back of your head, just above and behind the point where your spinal cord connects t
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Researchers explain how little brain is better visualization with the help
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The cerebellum, or our little brain, is mainly responsible for our motor skills. Furthermore, the structure is important for behaviour and cognition. The cerebellum is a part of your brain located at the back of your head, just above and behind where your spinal cord connects to your brain i
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Hormone replacement therapy aids in prevention of Alzheimer's disease in w
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The study demonstrates that among women harbouring the APOE4 gene, the highest risk factor gene for Alzheimer's disease, HRT use is related to superior memory, cognition, and greater brain volumes in later life.
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