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Anti-epilepsy drug could stave off Alzheimer’s
The Telegraph: Giving the drug levetiracetam to patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition known to foreshadow Alzheimer’s, improved their ability to remember. It also reduced overactivity in a part of the brain tasked
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Red pill or blue bill: Who cares? Getting to choose is the best part
National Post: Life is about making choices, from the mundane (Should I eat a Kit Kat for breakfast?) to the momentous (Should I accept this new job?). Though we agonize over some decisions, researchers have
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How Media Can Encourage Our Better Side
Violent media—films, TV, videogames—can encourage aggression, and lots of research says so. But psychologists haven’t spent as much time looking at the ways media with more socially positive content help suppress meanness and prod us
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Internet search engines cause poor memory, scientists claim
The Telegraph: Researchers found increasing number of users relied on their computers as a form of “external memory” as frequent use of online information libraries “wired” human brains. The study, examining the so-called “Google effect”
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Neurosciences : les poussins préfèrent les sons harmonieux
Yahoo France: Publiés dans la revue Psychological Science, les résultats d’une étude italienne suggèrent que, de façon innée, les poussins préfèrent une musique aux sons consonants à une autre, aux sons dissonants. Les scientifiques savaient
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…
Should I skip my morning workout today so I can sleep longer? Or perhaps, since it is summer after all, indulge in an ice cold Mocha Frappucino with whipped cream and chocolate syrup drizzled over