Category: Education
Repeating aloud makes you remember better
Reading aloud will help you remember things, a study says. The effect is even better when you address it to someone else. Professor Victor Boucher of the University of Montreal’s Department of Linguistics and Translation leads the study whose […]
Birth weight linked to hearing and vision problems later in life
A study suggests that overweight and underweight babies are more likely to have poor vision, hearing, and cognition when become adults. Making small improvements to achieve normal birth weight would be beneficial to babies in the long run. Researchers in […]
Physicians cause low quality care for LGBT and disabled patients
Physicians who do not discuss issues regarding homosexuality and disability are preventing better care for their patients, a according to a Rowan University professor of family medicine. Physicians’ reluctance to discuss disabilities, sex, work and independence with disabled patients deprives […]
Repetition prevents learning for people with autism
A new study published in Nature Neuroscience shows that training individuals with ASD to acquire new information by repeating the information actually harms their ability to apply that learned knowledge to other situations. This finding, by an international research […]
Happy people are healthier, study says
A five-year study proves that happiness can improve the health of heart disease patients. Over the course of five years the researchers tracked more than 1,000 patients with coronary heart disease. Patients who reported higher positive psychological states were […]
Sit-stand desks burn more calories
According to a new University of Iowa study, employees with sit-stand desks stood 60 minutes more a day at work compared to their co-workers with sitting desks, and they continued to do so long after their desks lose their novelty. […]
Researchers found keys to happiness at work
A new study by a mathematical economist spells out three things: (1) money does buy happiness, (2) but the income increase has to be long-term, and (3) overtime makes us really sad. Mathematical economist Prof. Dr. Christian Bayer, from the […]
Action-packed video games are workouts for the brain
A recent study is the best excuse to give when you want to hole up and play video games all day. Action-packed video games, researchers conclude, is a good exercise for your brain. Analyzing science on the cognitive effects of […]
Cell damage causes Type 1 diabetes symptoms
Patients long suffering from Type 1 diabetes often have a group of symptoms called diabetic enteropathy. Diabetic enteropathy includes gastroparesis (delayed emptying of food), irritable bowel syndrome, abdominal distension and fecal incontinence. The causes of diabetic enteropathy were unknown, until […]
Sleep late, gain weight
A new study shows that sleeping late will make you gain weight. Researchers found that every hour of sleep less than the nine-hour ideal lead to gaining 2.1 points on BMI Index in the span of five years. University of […]
