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- Social Media as a Tool in Medicine
May 7, 2013 | 9:06 amInteresting article/review in Circulation (American Heart Association) about Digital Social Networks and Health. Free full text. [More...]
- Family history of Alzheimer’s doubles risk
May 1, 2013 | 9:36 amRelatives of people with Alzheimer’s disease are more than twice as likely to develop abnormal brain pathology associated with the condition compared with individuals who don’t have a family history of the disease, a recent study in PLOS ONE said. [More...]
- Bipolar Disorder – A Focus on Depression
March 20, 2013 | 7:52 amLive today, neuroscienceCME Live and On Demand Bipolar Disorder – A Focus on Depression. [More...]
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Category Archives: Memory
L-Dopa Improves Decision-Making In Older Adults
A study published online in Nature Neuroscience has demonstrated that a drug widely used to treat Parkinson’s Disease can help to reverse age-related impairments in decision making in some older people. Researchers from Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging describe the … Continue reading
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Sleep After Processing New Information is Most Effective
Sleeping after studying is actually a good thing. Researchers from the Department of Psychology at Notre Dame University studied 207 students who habitually slept for at least six hours per night. Participants were randomly assigned to study declarative, semantically … Continue reading
Menopause and Memory Problems
The difficulties that many women describe as memory problems when menopause approaches are real, according to a study published today in the journal Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society.[More...]
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