High Fructose Corn Syrup Affects Mental Acuity
5/29/2012A recent study at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that steady consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)...
Read MoreStudy Links Bad fats to Poor Cognitive Abilities
5/25/2012A recent study conducted at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston found that the types of fats we eat...
Read MoreI Want My Baby Bach Riffs
5/19/2012It's common for musicians to hail from musical families. The clan of Johann Sebastian Bach, for instance, was full of...
Read MoreOne Upside to Media Multitasking
5/3/2012A new study finds that those who are accustomed to using several types of media at once may actually be...
Read MoreTop Athletes Are Mentally Tops
4/28/2012A recent study found that athletes score higher on tests of executive function compared to the population at large.
Read MoreHospitalization linked to Dementia and Cognitive Decline
4/11/2012Considering that medical errors ranks as a third cause of death in the US and that one out of seven...
Read MoreStudy on Behavior
3/16/2012Do you think the upper class has the upper hand when it comes to manners and politeness? Studies show that’s...
Read MoreUpper Class = Bad Behavior
3/15/2012Recent research has shown that social status does not necessarily confer class or translate to people who behave well. Members of...
Read MoreIt’s the Smart Kids Who Do Drugs
2/23/2012New research finds that it's those with higher IQs are more likely to use illegal substances such as marijuna, cocaine, and...
Read MoreArguments as Training
2/16/2012A recent study, which took place at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, shows that differences of opinion between parents and...
Read MoreFive “Scientific” Myths about Fat
2/13/2012When it comes to nutrition, the medical community and so-called scientific studies may be the greatest spreaders of myth and...
Read MoreDown to Four Degrees of Separation
2/11/2012Researchers at the University of Milan have discovered that the degrees of separation between two random people anywhere in the world has...
Read MoreHearing Loss Epidemic
2/2/2012Recent research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has found that 20 percent of Americans 12 and older already have...
Read MoreSoccer May Not Be So Safe
1/31/2012A recent study has found that children who often head a soccer ball are at risk for developing a brain...
Read MoreNew Evidence about Men Thinking About Sex
1/26/2012According to the tallies, young men in a study thought about sex only 19 times a day, on average, far fewer...
Read MoreNew Obesity Study on Meal Portion Sizes
1/20/2012Obesity statistics in the US convey a sad story: more than two-thirds of all adults over the age of 20...
Read MoreTV is (Still) Bad for Tots
1/17/2012Once again, the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a statement to parents reminding them to place a limit on...
Read MoreInfusing Young Blood into Old Brains
1/7/2012Researchers have found that young blood rejuvenates old bodies. Now, new evidence suggests that young blood may also make the...
Read MoreIQs Can Change
12/22/2011According to recent studies, IQs can change over the years. So instead of an IQ score being a benchmark of fixed...
Read MoreNew Study On IQ
12/16/2011If you have taken an IQ test at some point in your life, whether at school or through an evaluation,...
Read MoreNumber of Real Friends Declining
12/10/2011Despite Facebook networks numbering in the hundreds or even thousands. That’s because the average person now has one-third fewer close...
Read MoreThe Nightmare You Don’t Wake From
12/8/2011In the early 1980s, 117 healthy, young immigrants from Laos died in their sleep. What they shared in common was a...
Read MoreMammalian Brain Can Repair Itself
12/6/2011A new study out of Harvard University came to the surprising conclusion that it may indeed be possible to trigger...
Read MoreTired Teens Don’t Make the Best Choices
12/1/2011Research has determined that there is a greater likelihood of dangerous behaviors among those teenagers regularly sleeping less than eight hours...
Read MoreCoffee Can Ward Off Depression
11/29/2011A study, at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, found that women who drink four or more cups...
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