A study from the University College of London, in the United Kingdom, has linked the lack of sleep in young children with a worse development of their cognitive abilities. The researchers analyzed the nocturnal habits of 12,000 children between 3 and 7 years old and analyzed their reading comprehension, mathematics and their spatial skills.
If you want to be a true sex symbol, you better have a body 10 and less brain ... at least if you are a wader. According to a recent study by the Center for Ecological Research and Forest Applications (CREAF), these birds do not choose their mates based on the size of their brains, which would undermine some claims about the evolution of the brain and the sexual selection of the couple.
Our imagination can affect the way we experience the "real" world much more than we suspect, according to recent research from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Although we tend to consider the things we imagine and the things we perceive as clearly dissociable, the truth is that "the imagination of a sound or a shape changes the way we perceive the world around us in the same way as when we actually hear it or we see, "explains neuroscientist Christopher Berger, lead author of the study published in the journal Current Biology. In other words, "what we imagine hearing can change what we really see, and what we imagine seeing can change what we hear," he points out.
A study from the University of Buffalo (USA) published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry reveals that women are more resistant to chronic stress because estrogens - the female hormones par excellence - protect them in these types of situations. In their experiments with rats exposed to periodic episodes of stress for a week, they found that, while the males saw their short-term memory diminished, at the same stress levels the females did not show any alteration in their ability to remember.
By studying the brain with diffusion MRI, scientists have obtained a clearer image than usual of our thinking organ that reveals that the great brain pathways are a structure of
Did you know that epigenetics, that is, the expression of DNA in your fat cells varies when you exercise? And that physical activity reorganizes the brain in such a way that, in stressful situations, we stay calm better?
Breast cancer is the most common among western women. In our country, according to the AECC, about 22,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, especially in women between 45 and 65 years of age. Thanks to advances in early diagnosis, five-year survival is around 83% of those affected, the most frequent treatments being surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormonal therapy.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
