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Scientists have determined in a new study that children suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are more likely to display impaired attention and verbal memory than their peers. Treating apnea was proven to play a direct role in reducing these symptoms.
In fact, treating OSA results in significant improvements... |
22 May 2012
06:39 GMT |
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The way in which the brain manages to focus our attention on a single voice in a room filled with people is something that scientists have been trying to understand for a long time. A new study may have just provided new insight into this mystery.
Chatter and background noises are all around us everywhere we go, yet... |
19 April 2012
05:42 GMT |
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Official statistics released only recently indicate that the number of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnostics has increased by about 67 percent over the past decade alone.
The condition is most often diagnosed in children and teens, and appears to affect primarily the developed world – co... |
20 March 2012
09:05 GMT |
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University of British Columbia scientists determined in a new study that the youngest children in a classroom are the most likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and medicated for it. The group argues that the situation is very poorly handled by doctors.
The conclusion was handl... |
6 March 2012
05:00 GMT |
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A study done at the North Carolina State University has demonstrated that the Blizzard-made MMO World of Warcraft has the potential to improve the attention levels and the spatial awareness for older players.
The study involved two groups of volunteers with ages between 60 and 77, one which was given World of Warcra... |
24 February 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Babies who have a low weight at birth, or who are delivered before term, are known to achieve lower cognitive test scores than their peers, but now scientists show exactly how birth issues affect executive functioning. The work focused primarily on attention and memory.
According to the research team, preterm babies... |
12 December 2011
04:46 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, it would appear that even the most health-conscious consumers don't pay as much attention to nutrition labels as they think they do.
These labels appear on ... |
25 October 2011
10:31 GMT |
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A group of researchers at the University of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, says that paying too much attention to what you are doing can sometimes prevent you from performing at optimal levels in that particular task. What this implies is that, at times, too much attention can indeed be detrimental to performance... |
24 October 2011
08:27 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of Illinois announce that they managed to develop a new type of therapy against attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Their method is very effective in reducing symptoms associated with this condition in children.
The new method is extremely simple, scientists who cond... |
16 September 2011
09:43 GMT |
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Children who have a very high risk factor for developing psychopathy are not so quick to process other people's fears as their peers are. This may be one of the reasons why they go on to develop the antisocial personality disorder.Generally speaking, mentally-healthy humans are capable of figuring out when those... |
20 May 2011
08:44 GMT |
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In a paper appearing in the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, experts indicate that siblings may in fact bear a more considerable influence on each other than first thought. During a new series of experiments, investigators learned that the brothers and sisters of those suffering from attention defi... |
9 May 2011
02:38 GMT |
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Children who are born prematurely, and those who have a low weight at birth, are at an increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later on in life, during adolescence.In this new research, scientists discovered two more risk factors for this condition, which is currently very widespr... |
21 April 2011
10:06 GMT |
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Children, teens and adults who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be more creative than their peers who do not have the condition, say the results of a new scientific study. While it's true that the disorder entails a number of challenges for both the sufferers and their family, this... |
14 March 2011
09:49 GMT |
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A new investigation shows that children who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be at even higher risk than their peers to experience negative symptoms from not getting enough sleep every night. While losing sleep hours has been proven to be detrimental for all age group, those with ADHD m... |
4 March 2011
09:47 GMT |
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A new investigation suggests that people who listen to their inner instincts telling them to take a break from a strenuous activity every once in a while are much better at concentrating than their peers who choose to remain focused on the task at hand. Most people experienced this situation at least once – whe... |
10 February 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Oftentimes, drivers tend to show utter disregard for their safety and that of others, by either talking on their cell phones or being absent-minded. New, steering wheel-mounted devices may help solve the attention problems.Scientists have produced a new type of sensor, that can pull the skin on the drivers' fing... |
27 September 2010
05:34 GMT |
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Video games, like rock and hip hop before them, are sometimes blamed for all the evils that befell the youngsters of the planet but rarely is serious science employed to really study the effects that video games have upon players. Now a study that was published on the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pedia... |
26 July 2010
02:10 GMT |
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The June issue of the esteemed journal Acta Paediatrica will feature a paper describing the latest, major investigation of children suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The condition is extremely widespread in the United States, where millions of children are told to take various drugs for ... |
1 June 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Researchers looking into the very foundations of the mental processes and connections that allow us to memorize and remember things say that the time when a new memory is formed is just as important as the memory itself. In other words, it's not only what's in a scene, or the scene itself, that counts on ho... |
16 March 2010
07:59 GMT |
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A German philosopher proposed a long time ago that the tools people used tended to be perceived as being an integrated part of their personality. Until now, there has been no way for scientists to test the validity of this statement, but researchers managed recently to devise a deceptively simple test to determine wh... |
10 March 2010
04:03 GMT |
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Scientists have been familiar with the fact that the human mind features a “spotlight,” which is their way of referring to the processes that take place inside our heads when our attention brings to focus certain details from our environment, overlooking others. The spotlight functions just like the actua... |
28 December 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Scientists have developed a new method that allows robots to remember relevant pieces of information from the sea of data they collect from the environment, by emulating the way human memory works. Each individual is able to recall the most important things about a certain period or event, but all the useless details... |
7 November 2009
07:06 GMT |
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When it picks up sudden movements or sounds, the brain of most animals – including humans – needs to reach a conclusion fast, and to act on that so as to keep the body out of harm's way. A new scientific study has revealed that there are numerous neural pathways that compete for attention inside the ... |
24 October 2009
03:31 GMT |
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In modern-day society, multitasking is one of those traits that are encouraged at the workplace and in private life, in spite of the fact that no one really knows what its effects are in the long run. It is only now that scientists are beginning to analyze the implications of this phenomenon, in several benchmark stu... |
25 August 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Researchers from the Netherlands caution that exposing the human brain to radiotherapy, a practice that is widespread in treatments against brain tumors known as low-grade glioma, can actually be very dangerous in the long run. The investigation revealed that patients who were treated using this method showed a far g... |
10 August 2009
10:58 GMT |
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The human brain's ability to focus on an important issue, process, or decision, while ignoring everything else has puzzled neuroscientists for a long time, who could not understand how this mechanism worked. They had a few hints as to the brain regions involved in the process, but concrete scientific pieces of e... |
29 May 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Being subjected to two languages at once seems to have a very beneficial effect on infants, a new scientific study shows. After just a few months, they are able to understand learning cues far more efficiently than their peers from single-language households, a trait that they keep throughout their lives. Experts are... |
14 April 2009
06:37 GMT |
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New research seems to show that children at school districts where the US “No Child Left Behind” Act has been implemented are very likely to not benefit from the appropriate amount of physical exercise youngsters at their age should. The ancient Latins had a proverb that roughly translates into “Hea... |
1 April 2009
10:34 GMT |
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Behavior and health experts at the University of Michigan (UM) found that walking outside, in parks or in nature, helps improve conditions such as memory deficit, inattentiveness and other forms of mental fatigue. Even the cold weather is good enough, as the team says that the cold stimulates the brain to be more ale... |
17 December 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Michigan, led by Daniel Weissman, studied the interactions that occur between multiple areas of the brain when boredom sets in, and discovered that, as attention fades, so does the intensity at which several nervous centers communicate. The results were obtained by keeping volunteers ... |
11 December 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Most of us have found ourselves in situations in which, when dealing with creativity issues, the solution failed to appear right there on the spot, but rather all of a sudden, after a while of not paying attention to them. This is how we instantly knew how to solve a certain math problem, continue the song we started... |
6 October 2008
05:52 GMT |
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A new research advises us not to trust the legend of our multitasking, since we're not at all able to do more things at the same time consciously.The same study stresses on the emergence of an adjacent unique ability that propelled us to an evolutionary edge - the humans' capacity of toggling their att... |
3 October 2008
08:31 GMT |
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Hackers make a lot of money these days, more than many other criminals do - and you know why? It's because they're smart! When they pick a target, they search for something that's going to bring them a lot of cash, no matter how hard it is to hack. If in real life, there are some systems that you can&#... |
24 September 2007
08:06 GMT |
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Paris Hilton managed to get some media attention for something else than speeding, drinking and doing drugs. Or losing her favorite sex tape and realizing it ended up on YouTube or some other similar place. No, this time, the diva had a beach party, barbecue and any other activity involved in what the people who live... |
16 August 2007
09:17 GMT |
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If you think that just the muscles can be trained, you're wrong! Brain can be trained also. A new research shows how three months of intense training in a form of 2,500 year old Buddhist mediation known as Vipassana ("insight" in Sanskrit) can sharpen significantly the brain ability, especially attention to deta... |
10 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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