Author: Chapman

People with Alzheimer’s disease often drive shorter distances and visit fewer new places compared to people without it. With this in mind, GPS data can serve as a biomarker to identify preclinical Alzheimer’s, according to the results of a study published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy. The participants, 75 people without preclinical Alzheimer’s and 64 people with it, were already enrolled in studies on aging, dementia and driving.

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Even though our vocabulary continually grows throughout our lives, we find it increasingly difficult to have the right words ready at the right time as we age. The reason for this seems to underlie is that the networks in the brain are the ones that change their communication over time., as revealed in a new study carried out by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the University of Leipzig. This is how speaking two languages ​​changes you: the brain of a bilingual

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According to a study of more than 700 adolescents in Peru during the strictest COVID-19 confinement in the South American country, in spring 2020, when it comes to screen time, the problem is not so much the number of hours they spend online, but the quality of their online interactions. In general, the adolescents in the study who found support online, such as chatting with friends and family through WhatsApp or joining online multiplayer video games.

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Spending time in green spaces like parks helps improve attention span, concentration, and well-being, which can be demonstrated by improvements in step patterns measured when walking in different settings. But that can also be achieved in other settings, as researchers at the University of Bristol have found: people who felt more comfortable in urban settings had as regular step patterns as people who felt relaxed walking in nature.

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Autism spectrum disorder is difficult to diagnose in children under 5 years old, so early care is rarely applied. To remedy this problem, an interdisciplinary team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm based on automated video analysis, that allows studying the non-verbal communication of children in an anonymous and standardized way.

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is possibly the largest, most sophisticated and expensive machine in the history of mankind, while requiring the greatest investment of innovation and collaboration between different types of scientists from all countries of the world. Not surprisingly, this gigantic 100-meter-high circular tunnel runs 27 kilometers underground, near Geneva, and when it is put into operation manages to be the hottest spot in our galaxy, the emptiest place in the Solar System and the largest fridge on the planet. Everything at once.

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According to research presented at the European Respiratory Society. International Congress, the use of electronic cigarettes containing nicotine causes an immediate increase in the formation of blood clots and a deterioration in the ability of small blood vessels to expand and dilate, ayes like an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. The researchers suggest that these effects are similar to those caused by smoking traditional cigarettes and that, with prolonged use, they could lead to a heart attack or stroke.

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According to a new Yale study that has been published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, older people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods are disabled approximately two years earlier than their counterparts in wealthier neighborhoods. The data also points to a tangible effect of structural racism on the lives of older Americans..

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