A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia -- a question that has puzzled scientists for the past decade.
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July 26, 2010
Why more education lowers dementia risk
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February 5, 2010
the rise of neuroscience
So I knew neuroscience has exploded over the last few decades, but I didn’t know its emergence as a more autonomous discipline is “the biggest structural change in scientific citation patterns over the past decade”. In the authors’ words that follow, they are referring to their figure showing neuroscience emerging as a new citation [...]... Rosvall, M., & Bergstro
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January 1, 2010
Caesarians and Mindfulness
In my end-of-the-decade summary of the American mind, I noted that - although mindfulness is highly touted in the media - our society is becoming ever less mindful.I am not a seminal thinker on mindfulness, but I have learned about it through my work with addiction. My understanding of mindfulness is that it comprises a learned ability to focus on physical and emotional processes as a way of con
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August 25, 2009
U.S. Antidepressant Use Doubled in A Decade
The proportion of Americans using antidepressants in a given year nearly doubled from 5.8% in 1996 to 10.1% in 2005, according to a paper just published: National Patterns in AntidepressantMedication Treatment, by Mark Olfson and Steven Marcus.That means about 15 million more Americans were medicated in '05 than a decade previously. A huge increase in anyone's book. But the doubling in antidepre
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August 4, 2009
Americans taking antidepressants doubles
August 04, 2009 The number of Americans using antidepressants doubled in only a decade, while the number seeing psychiatrists continued to fall, a study shows.
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