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Socially active 60-year-olds face lower dementia risk
Being more socially active in your 50s and 60s predicts a lower risk of developing dementia later on, finds a…
Wearing hearing aid may help protect brain in later life
A new study has concluded that people who wear a hearing aid for age-related hearing problems maintain better brain function…
Upbeat music can sweeten tough exercise: Insufficiently-active people might benefit from choosing the right tunes
New research coming out of UBC’s Okanagan campus demonstrates that upbeat music can make a rigorous workout seem less tough.…
Virtual reality can spot navigation problems in early Alzheimer’s disease
Virtual reality (VR) can identify early Alzheimer’s disease more accurately than ‘gold standard’ cognitive tests currently in use, suggests new…
Healthy brain development is a human right, argues Yale researcher
We know that the environment in which children and young adults are raised influences healthy brain development. Now, a psychologist…
People with benign skin condition willing to trade time, money to cure disorder: New study highlights the substantial effect that condition has on quality of life
People with benign hyperpigmentation (the darkening or increase in the natural color of the skin), are willing to pay (WTP)…
For people with strong life purpose, making healthier choices may take less effort
Ever wonder how some people seem to meet their fitness goals with ease and love eating healthy foods while others…
The enduring effects of mother-child interactions as children become adults
Interactions between a mother and her child have been linked to cognitive outcomes in childhood, but little work has looked…
Study identifies better, cheaper ways to stem arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh: Some solutions are 100 times cheaper than others, costing as little as $1 per person
In what has been called “the largest mass poisoning of a population in history,” some 40 million people in Bangladesh…