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The self-regulation describes the ability of an individual to manage and alter their emotions, behavior and cognition. Good self-regulation is associated with positive benefits for mental health and higher academic performance in children. A new study, published in the journal Developmental Psychology, details how researchers from the University of Surrey studied 240 elementary school students ages 7-11 in a period of 11 weeks to evaluate how taekwondo acts in self-regulation.

The locus cerulean is an anatomical region in the brain stem involved in the response to panic and stress. As the main source of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, it helps us control our focus of attention. Its name in Latin means ‘the blue place’, which derives from the pigmentation caused by the content of melanin granules within this structure.. Bringing together evidence from animal and human studies, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the University of Southern California have developed a novel framework that describes how the cerulean locus regulates our brain’s sensitivity to relevant information. in…

After Canada legalized recreational cannabis, and according to a study published in JAMA Network Open, Ontario had nine times as many emergency department visits per month for cannabis intoxication in young children under the age of 10 after Canada legalized recreational cannabis.

Women had a higher prevalence of suicidal thoughts, plans and attempts in the past year than men, while the prevalence was also higher for adults aged 18 to 39 compared to those aged 40 and over. These are some of the conclusions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States (CDC)

It is often assumed that interacting with traditional types of media improves well-being, while the use of new types of media, such as social media, worsens well-being. However, the consumption of traditional media, including books, music and television, has little effect on the well-being of adults in the short term, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports.

According to the Global Burden of Disease study, which is the first to provide prognostic estimates for 204 countries worldwide, the number of adults (aged 40 and over) living with dementia worldwide is expected to nearly triple , from an estimated 57 million in 2019 to 153 million in 2050. The main reason for this growth is due to population growth and an aging population.

Analyzing data on the coronavirus during 2020, a group of researchers found that the most trusting societies tended to achieve a faster decline in coronavirus infections and deaths. This is likely because behaviors vital to stopping the spread of COVID-19, such as wearing face masks and social distancing, depend on mutual trust to be effective.

Long-term risks of living in space include bone loss or muscle weakness, just to name a few harmful side effects, so leaving gravity behind certainly has its obstacles. Some of these potential roadblocks have already been extensively studied or are currently being investigated, but MUSC Health researchers have found an important but neglected area of ​​space that needs to be further studied: the brain and the effect of gravity on vision.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing recently reported intriguing new evidence for a possible origin of the Omicron variant: a mouse. Their main idea is that a mouse could have been somehow infected with the human virus by “reverse zoonotic transfer”, after which the virus evolved all or many of its 45 new mutations, and then transferred back to humans.