Posts

5 Ways to Cope With Migraines at Work

Democrats Quickly Found a Divide Over ‘Medicare-for-All’ at the First Democratic Presidential Debate

Trouble reading? Try these workarounds

http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png Once you learn how to read, it’s easy to take the skill for granted. Like breathing or walking, we don’t give the ability much thought unless it begins to deteriorate. But trouble reading can develop at any age for a variety of reasons, including difficulty concentrating, mild cognitive impairment, and physical changes. Mental roadblocks can cause trouble reading Fuzzy thinking and difficulty concentrating can get in the way of reading. “If your attention isn’t focused on the sentence you’re reading, you’re not likely to register enough of the sentence to understand what your eyes just passed over,” notes Dr. Joel Salinas, a neurologist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. You might experience fuzzy thinking or difficulty concentrating because of a lack of sleep stress nutrient deficiency a medication that makes it harder to concentrate reading or learning disabilities. Sometimes age-related cognitive changes affect ...

Children living in the countryside outperform children living in the metropolitan area in motor skills, suggests a new study in Finland (n=945, ages 3 to 7).

Image
submitted by /u/mvea [link] [comments]

Memory lapses in your 20s may be associated with risk for Alzheimer's, according to a new study (n=59,571), which suggests that a young person's memory may be impacted by genetic risk as many as four decades before the typical onset of Alzheimer's disease.

Image
submitted by /u/mvea [link] [comments]

A 10% tax on sugary drinks has cut the purchase and consumption of sugary drinks by an average of 10% in places it has been introduced, finds new research which included four cities in the US, Spain, Chile, France and Mexico, with a possible 2.9% increase on average in water as an alternative drink.

Image
submitted by /u/mvea [link] [comments]

Embryo experiments take ‘baby steps’ toward growing human organs in livestock: growing fully human organs in pigs, sheep, or other animals, which could then be harvested for transplants.

Image
submitted by /u/mvea [link] [comments]