Schizophrenia, that mental disorder that usually develops in adolescence and is characterized by delusions, abnormal thoughts, hallucinations and uncontrolled body movements, seems to have found a tough rival: intelligence itself.
The link between junk food and childhood obesity is well known, but now a study conducted at Ohio State University suggests that it also affects school performance. Researchers have discounted other factors that can coincide with a poor quality diet.
A team of researchers from the University of Rochester in New York (USA) has confirmed that injecting glial cells into the brain of mice causes a significant improvement in both memory and cognition in the rodent. The work has been published in The Journal of Neuroscience.
These days we have seen how Magnus Carlsen, a young Norwegian of only 24 years old, has become the world chess champion by beating the Indian five-time champion Viswanathan Anand in a tense duel of the titans until the end.
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and King College London (United Kingdom) has presented a study with monozygotic twins that shows early reading with better intellectual capacity for reasoning. The work has been published in the journal Child Development.
The feeding of insects and slugs by our ancestors may have played a key role in stimulating the brain and its cognitive capacity, says a new study carried out by the University of Washington in San Luis (USA). The work has been published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
A recent study by the University of Colorado (USA) and the University of Leiden (Netherlands) has found that the widely spread theory that Neanderthals were quite clumsy and had limited intelligence, compared to anatomically modern humans, has no basis.
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.
