New University of Nevada, Reno and The Open University research study used two new approaches to determine ranges of the best times of day for learning for college-age students.
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A new cognitive research study used two...
A comparison of 2 different fitness routines shows that both can have an anti-aging effect on the brain in the elderly, but only dancing gives rise to a measurable difference in behavior.
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Total sleep deprivation or partial sleep deprivation can produce clinical improvement in depression symptoms within 24 hours.
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Sleep deprivation -- typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings -- rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half of...
This picture represents scatterplot of pressure and temperature variables from the Hurricane Isabel dataset. The standard design (left) loses fidelity and requires manual adjustment, but the optimized design (right) automatically adapts to the data.
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This is the first study of its kind using medical images and artificial intelligence.
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A computer's ability to predict a patient's lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer to becoming...
Bullying.
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Childhood bullying may lead to long-lasting health consequences, impacting psychosocial risk factors for cardiovascular health well into adulthood, according to a study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The...
The genetics underlying Tourette disorder have remained largely a mystery -- until now.
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Tourette disorder (also known as Tourette syndrome) afflicts as many as one person in a hundred worldwide with potentially disabling symptoms including involuntary...
Bacterial cells (stock illustration).
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Leading hospital "superbugs," known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years -- about the time when animals were first crawling onto land (and well before the...
The large Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 to 2015 was devastating to the people in West Africa and beyond.
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Ebola virus RNA can persist in the semen of survivors more than two years...
Every year as mosquito season arrives, so does West Nile virus, causing fever in thousands of people nationwide and life-threatening brain infections in an unlucky few. About half the people who survive that infection -- West Nile encephalitis --...
Ten risk factors that can be modified are responsible for nine of 10 strokes worldwide, but the ranking of those factors vary regionally, says a study led by researchers of the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of McMaster University.
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