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• Brain's hippocampus is essential structure for all aspects of recognition memory, researchers find

  03-11-2015 22:35
  The hippocampus, a brain structure known to play a role in memory and spatial navigation, is essential to one’s ability to recognize previously encountered events, objects, or people – a phenomenon known as recognition memory – according to new research.
  
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• How depressive thoughts persevere, interfere with memory in people with depression

  03-11-2015 21:11
  Depressive thoughts are maintained for longer periods of time for people with depressed mood, and this extended duration may reduce the amount of information that these individuals can hold in their memory, new research demonstrates.
  
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• Brain training improves memory and performance of everyday tasks in older people

  03-11-2015 18:00
  
  Playing online games that challenge reasoning and memory skills - brain training - could have significant benefits for older people in their day to day lives, according to a new study published in...
  
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• Righting a wrong? Right side of brain can compensate for post-stroke loss of speech

  03-11-2015 17:24
  After a debate that has lasted more than 130 years, researchers have found that loss of speech from a stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain can be recovered on the back, right side of the brain. This contradicts recent notions that the right hemisphere interferes with recovery.
  
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• Online brain training 'helps older adults with everyday tasks'

  03-11-2015 17:12
  
  Playing online games that give memory and reasoning skills a workout is beneficial for older people, a large-scale study has concluded.
  
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• How the Ebola scare stigmatized African immigrants in the US

  03-11-2015 17:00
  
  The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa also took its toll socially on one of the fastest growing populations in the United States, African immigrants.
  
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• Equilibrium Enterprises Introduces "The Pressure Paradox," a Sequel to Martin Grunburg’s Bestseller, "The Habit Factor"

  03-11-2015 16:00 via pr.com
  How do you respond when the pressure is on? This follow-up to the Amazon Bestseller "The Habit Factor" goes one step further to help us understand and harness the power of pressure to accelerate goal achievement. [PR.com]
  
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• Adjusting to less food availability can impact kids negatively

  03-11-2015 16:00
  
  Adjusting to family circumstances where there is less food available than previously can be a traumatic situation for children and can result in behavioral issues, according to new research from...
  
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• Working on your tot's memory now can help his high school success

  03-11-2015 14:00
  
  Preschoolers who score lower on a working memory task are likely to score higher on a dropout risk scale at the age of 13, researchers at Université Sainte-Anne and the University of Montreal has...
  
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• Research shows devastating effect war and violence has on children's mental health

  03-11-2015 14:00
  
  Violence and conflict in areas affected by war, such as Gaza, can have a devastating effect on the mental health of the children exposed to it, according to research at the University of Leicester.
  
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• New study uncovers attitudes of African-American children toward overweight peers

  03-11-2015 14:00
  
  The childhood obesity epidemic in the United States has been growing for decades. A new study focusing on African-American children shows how the issue can also impact social development.
  
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• Anti-smoking messages can backfire, research suggests

  03-11-2015 14:00
  
  Public health policies targeted at smokers may actually have the opposite effect for some people trying to quit, according to new evidence released Nov. 2.
  
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• Can You Love Someone to Health?

  03-11-2015 12:28 via counsellingresource.com
  
  Can you love a character disturbed individual to health? Love, even the right kind of love, is never enough.Tags: character disturbance, relationships
  
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• Need help with your goals? Eating better may simply mean following the signs

  03-11-2015 12:00
  
  We all pursue goals. It stands to reason that we meet our goals better when we pursue them consciously. But is that really the case?
  
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• How to convince people to wash their hands during flu season

  03-11-2015 12:00
  
  Suppose there were signs in a restaurant bathroom telling customers that they must wash their hands. Would customers obey them?
  
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• Scientists discover how to better map brain tumors

  03-11-2015 04:25
  Scientists have discovered a protein that helps map the edge of brain tumors more clearly so they show up on magnetic resonance imaging scans, according to new research.
  
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