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• Want to Reduce Your Dementia Risk? Try This Brain Training Game

  13-03-2026 16:29 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthRegular exercise, a Mediterranean diet, and an hour of video games? According to new research, that could be the perfect prescription for dementia prevention. A new study from Johns Hopkins found that one type of brain-training computer game may help reduce dementia risk by up to 25%. What's more, that protective effect appears to last for decades after completing just a few months of exercises. Here are the details and a chance to try it...
  
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• EU States Must Provide Proper ID for Transgender Citizens

  13-03-2026 16:29 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: DW- top storiesThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Thursday ruled that European Union nations must provide transgender citizens with identification documents reflecting their "lived gender" rather than their gender at birth. Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassation referred the case to the ECJ, saying it was unclear whether Bulgaria could issue such documentation. The court's ruling emphasized that European Union law supersedes national law across member...
  
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• Official Resigns Over Owning Signed Copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf

  13-03-2026 16:28 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Canadian NewsA Canadian official, Bob Gale, abruptly resigned just hours after local anti-racism groups demanded he apologize for owning a signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto, Mein Kampf. A spokesperson of one group said Mr. Gale needed to "apologize for owning one of the most notorious pieces of antisemitic hate." Hitler was the leading architect of the Holocaust, in which six million Jewish people were murdered along with millions of other..
  
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• Kansas Driver's License Law Leaves Some of Trans Resients in ID Limbo

  13-03-2026 16:28 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsA new state law in Kansas has invalidated the driver's licenses and other government-issued documents of transgender residents. No law has ever retroactively invalidated legally-obtained documents before. A few states prohibit trans people from changing gender markers, but they don't invalidate previous licenses. The new law also orders the state registrar to "correct" birth certificates that do not match the state's binary definition of male...
  
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• A Surprising Blood Protein Pattern May Reveal Alzheimer's Disease

  13-03-2026 16:28 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthA new study suggests Alzheimer's disease may be detectable through shape changes in proteins found in the blood. Researchers found that structural differences in three blood proteins closely track the progression of the disease. By analyzing these changes in more than 500 people, the team was able to distinguish healthy individuals from those with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's with impressive accuracy, which could move up diagnosis...
  
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• Single Workout Sparks Brain Ripples in Humans

  13-03-2026 16:27 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthWe've long known that exercise is good for the brain, but a groundbreaking study suggests one reason why. For the first time in humans, researchers found that a single 20-minute session on a stationary bike triggers a burst of high-frequency brain waves called ripples. These ripples originate in the hippocampus and surge toward the regions responsible for learning and recall, rapidly reshaping brain networks used for thinking and memory.
  
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