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Memory Loss And Other Cognitive Impairment Becoming Less Common In Older Americans
Although it's too soon to
sound the death knell for
the "senior moment," it
appears that memory loss and
thinking problems are
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What Is The Cognitive Rift Between Humans And Other Animals?
A Harvard scientist presents
a new hypothesis on what
defines the cognitive rift
between humans and animals.
He identifies four key
differences in human thought
... > full story
Gene Research May Help Explain Autistic Savants
Mice lacking a certain brain
protein learn some tasks
better but also forget
faster, according to new
research that may explain
the phenomenon of autistic
... > full story
Do Animals Think Like Autistic Savants?
Do animals have privileged
access to lower level
sensory information before
it is packaged into
concepts, as it has been
argued for autistic savants?
When Temple Grandin argued
... > full story
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Children's Under-achievement Could Be Down To Poor Working Memory
February 27, 2008 — Children who under-achieve at school may just have poor working memory rather than low intelligence according to researchers who have produced the world's first tool to assess memory capacity in the ... > full story -
Stroke Risk Factors May Signal Faster Cognitive Decline In Elderly
February 23, 2008 — Older Americans with the highest risk of stroke, but those who have never suffered a stroke, also have the highest rate of cognitive decline, researchers report. The higher your stroke risk score, ... > full story -
Siblings Of Schizophrenia Patients Display Subtle Shape Abnormalities In Brain
February 22, 2008 — Subtle malformations in the brains of patients with schizophrenia also tend to occur in their healthy siblings. Shape abnormalities were found in the brain's thalamus. The researchers performed brain ... > full story -
Sex Differences In Memory: Women Better Than Men At Remembering Everyday Events
February 21, 2008 — There are several human characteristics considered to be genetically predetermined and evolutionarily innate, such as immune system strength, physical adaptations and even sex differences. ... > full story -
Listening To Music Improves Stroke Patients' Recovery, Study Shows
February 21, 2008 — Researchers from Finland found that if stroke patients listened to music for a couple of hours a day, their verbal memory and focused attention recovered better and they had a more positive mood than ... > full story -
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Learning About Brains From Computers, And Vice Versa
February 20, 2008 — For many years, Tomaso Poggio's lab at MIT ran two parallel lines of research. Some projects were aimed at understanding how the brain works, using complex computational models. Others were aimed at ... > full story -
Does Socializing Make Us Smarter?
February 19, 2008 — Humans are social animals; we spend much of our time with others in groups. We are also wise. It is not our size, speed, or strength that distinguishes us from other mammals, but our intelligence. ... > full story -
Stress Hormone Impacts Memory, Learning In Diabetic Rodents
February 19, 2008 — Diabetes is known to impair the cognitive health of people, but now scientists have identified one potential mechanism underlying these learning and memory problems. A new National Institutes of ... > full story -
Correcting Poor Vision Can Help Preschoolers' Performance
February 16, 2008 — Preschoolers with poor vision have lower scores in developmental testing indicative of success in school performance, but those scores improve significantly within six weeks when the children are ... > full story -
Smoking Marijuana Impairs Cognitive Function In MS Patients, Study Shows
February 14, 2008 — People with multiple sclerosis who smoke marijuana are more likely to have emotional and memory problems, according to new research. The study found marijuana smokers performed 50 percent slower on ... > full story
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