Consuming grapes twice a day for six months protected against significant metabolic decline in Alzheimer-related areas of the brain in a study of people with early memory decline. Image credit: Flickr/Zoi Koraki
Consuming grapes twice a day for six months...
This study provides evidence that losing one of your five senses enhances the others.
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People who use British Sign Language (BSL) have better reaction times in their peripheral vision, a new study from the University of Sheffield has...
In the marked brain region the thickness of the cerebral cortex decreased after psychotherapy.Credit: UZH
Anxiety in social situations is not a rare problem: Around one in ten people are affected by social anxiety disorder during their lifetime. Social anxiety...
According to a new study, nuts have a positive effect on health because, among other things, they are involved in activating the body's own defences for detoxifying reactive oxygen species. Image Credit: Flickr/naomii
Roasted and salted, ground as a baking...
(Left to right) Research Associate Audrey Richard, Associate Professor Hyeryun Choe and Research Associate Byoung-Shik Shim led the study on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute. Credit: The Scripps Research Institute
The most frightening aspect of Zika virus...
Unaffected mice, at left, have sensory hair bundles organized in 'V' formations with three rows of cilia (bottom left). This orderly structure falls apart in the mutant mice (middle column), but is dramatically restored after gene therapy treatment.Credit: Gwenaelle...
An engineering team at Washington University in St. Louis says a compound found in green tea may be of particular benefit to patients struggling with multiple myeloma and amyloidosis.Image credit: Flickr/Wilerson S Andrade
A compound found in green tea could...
People with symptoms of depression may see temporary improvements to their mood by following the age-old advice to sit up straight. Image credit: Flickr/y2bd.
Researchers at the University of Auckland has found evidence that suggests people who are depressed can...
The study included data from 48 studies comprising more than 1.7 million people. It used a person's job title to estimate their socioeconomic status and looked at whether they died early.Image Credit: Flickr/John Christian Fjellestad
Low socioeconomic status is linked...
Number of children is emerging as a novel factor that influences the risk for some cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and in some societies in both parents, according to Professor Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, chairperson of the European Society of Cardiology "management of...
A Michigan State University study finds that preschoolers who spend time together start to act like one another.Credit: Michigan State University
When preschoolers spend time around one another, they tend to take on each others' personalities, indicates a new study...
