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Study links children's mental health to sleep duration
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 9 (ANI): Children's vulnerability towards depression, anxiety, impulsive behaviour, and poor cognitive performance could be determined by considering the hours of sleep they manage to get.
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Lack of sleep bad for children's mental health: Study
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Warwick [England], Feb 4 (ANI): The hours of sleep children manage to get significantly determines their vulnerability towards depression, anxiety, impulsive behavior, and poor cognitive performance.
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Alcohol consumption during may lead to foetus' poor cognitive development
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bristol [England], Feb 1 (ANI): Researchers have shared in a new study that consumption of alcohol can lead to the poor cognitive development of the foetus in the womb.
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Alcohol consumption during pregnancy leads to poor cognitive function of c
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bristol [England], Jan 29 (ANI): According to a new study conducted by researchers, consuming alcohol during pregnancy might lead to the poorer cognitive functioning of children.
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Walnut consumption may slow cognitive decline!
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
California [US], Jan 28 (ANI): Walnut consumption by healthy, elderly adults had little effect on cognitive function over two years, but had a greater effect on elderly adults, who had smoked more and had a lower baseline neuropsychological test scores, says a study conducted by researchers
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Men aren't better than women at spatial cognition: Study
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 28 (ANI): Researchers have found that there is no male advantage in mental rotation abilities associated with spatial cognition competences, by employing cutting-edge eye-tracking technology.
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Micro doses of lithium can halt advanced Alzheimer, recover cognitive abil
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): A study conducted by a team of researchers have found that lithium in doses up to 400 times lower than what is been prescribed for mood disorders is capable of halting signs of advanced Alzheimer's pathology and recovering of lost cognitive abilities.
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Researchers find evidence for reduced brain connections in schizophrenia
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 15 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers have been able to show, for the first time, lower levels of protein found in the brains of people with schizophrenia due to advances in scanning.
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Youngsters get affected by their family's social status more than anything
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 12 (ANI): Youngsters consider their family's social status while planning for future education and work. This influence their mental health and stability more than their family's financial status, education or prestige in professional life, according to a recent st
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Scientists find missing protein in brain causes behaviours mirroring autis
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 10 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that when an essential key protein needed to generate novel brain cells during pregnancy and early childhood days of the offspring is missing, which makes the brain goes haywire. This particular deprivation causes an imbalance i
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Study reveals altruism leads to reduction in physical pain
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 5 (ANI): A new study states that altruism -- the activities related to helping others without expecting any benefits in return -- might actually be good for our own physical well being.
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Obesity in pregnant women can negatively affect IQ of their sons: Study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 24 (ANI): Obesity doesn't just adversely affect the women who directly suffer from it but it also has repercussions for their children, as revealed by a study. Sons of mothers who are severely overweight while pregnant suffer from long term cognitive deficits, whic
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