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Increases in Heart Disease Risk Factors May Decrease Brain Function
May 2, 2013 — Increases in heart disease risk factors may decrease brain function. The association between the two was noted in young and middle-age adults as well as the elderly. Smoking and diabetes were ... > full story -
Kids With Conduct Problems May Have Brains That Under-React to Painful Images: May Increase Risk of Adult Psychopathy
May 2, 2013 — When children with conduct problems see images of others in pain, key parts of their brains don't react in the way they do in most people. This pattern of reduced brain activity upon witnessing pain ... > full story -
How to Get More Followers on Twitter
May 2, 2013 — What do all Twitter users want? Followers – and lots of them. Looking at a half-million tweets over 15 months, a first-of-its-kind study has revealed a set of reliable predictors for building a ... > full story -
Brilliant Dye to Probe the Brain
May 2, 2013 — To obtain very-high-resolution 3D images of the cerebral vascular system, a dye is used that fluoresces in the near infrared and can pass through the ... > full story -
Bigger Birth Weight Babies at Greater Risk of Autism
May 2, 2013 — The biggest study of fetal growth and autism to date has reported that babies whose growth is at either extreme in the womb, either very big or very small, are at greater risk of developing ... > full story -
New Brain Research Shows Two Parents May Be Better Than One
May 1, 2013 — Scientists have discovered that adult brain cell production might be determined, in part, by the early parental environment. The study suggests that dual parenting may be more beneficial than single ... > full story -
Social Isolation of Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder Examined
May 1, 2013 — Young adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to be socially isolated. That’s the finding of new research that studies the social outcomes of young adults with an ... > full story -
Want to Slow Mental Decay? Play a Video Game
May 1, 2013 — A new study shows that older people can put off the aging of their minds by playing a simple game that primes their processing speed skills. The research showed participants' cognitive skills ... > full story -
Hypothalamus: Brain Region May Hold Key to Aging
May 1, 2013 — While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body's "fountain of aging": the brain region known as the hypothalamus. For the first time, scientists report that ... > full story -
Growing Gap Between Teens' Materialism and Willingness to Work Hard
May 1, 2013 — New research shows a growing gap between materialism and the desire to work hard in young people today. Researchers studied results of surveys of 355,000 US high school seniors from 1976 to 2007, ... > full story
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