Language acquisition is a complex process that requires different neural and cognitive skills since early childhood. One of children’s big challenges in language learning is to distinguish the words that are grammatically linked to each other, even though they hear one word after the other. We can easily understand that in the sentence “She, who never drinks coffee, sleeps more,” […]

“BMI is trash. Full stop.” This controversial tweet, which received thousands of likes and retweets, was cited in a recent Medscape perspective by one doctor on when physicians might stop using body mass index (BMI) to diagnose obesity. Body mass index (BMI) has for years been the consensus default method for assessing whether a person is overweight or has obesity, and […]

Are YOU a vacation napper? It may raise the risk of heart attacks, strokes and diabetes, Harvard study suggests Researchers examined data from 3,275 adults from the Spanish region of Murcia Long siesta-takers had a higher body mass index and more chronic health issues READ MORE: Chocolate, green tea and Chinese takeaways! The foods that are ruining your sleep revealed […]

More than eight in 10 pregnant women with allergies worry about passing them on to their child. A study of 500 women who are currently pregnant, or who gave birth within the last five years, found a quarter of them avoided eating nuts while pregnant in case they gave their unborn child an allergy. Gluten (20%) and pollen (16%) are […]

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered a receptor, sigma-1 receptor, and a protein, ATAD3A, that are associated with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Since there are drugs that specifically target the receptor, their findings suggest a new therapeutic strategy. They published the study in the journal Neurobiology of Disease. ALS causes degeneration of […]

WASHINGTON — A novel program for parents of highly dependent adult children reduces parental burden and anxiety in their offspring, a new pilot study shows. Known as failure to launch (FTL) syndrome, the criteria for this condition include the absence of a neurodevelopmental, mental, or intellectual condition, difficulty adapting to the challenges of adulthood, and living with or at the […]

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When a patient experiences the first symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, the disease has been developing for a long time, and the patient may have already lost half of a specific type of nerve cells in the brain. Therefore, researchers are focused on understanding what happens to these brain cells before they become damaged and die. “You want to treat this […]

A new study finds that playing and listening to music can help slow the decline of cognitive function in older people. Musical activities increased the brain’s gray matter in some areas, increasing its plasticity, although it did not reverse or stop brain atrophy due to aging. Multi-modal activities, including music, can deliver needed exercise to multiple brain regions. Our ability […]

In the United States, the monthly buprenorphine initiation rate increased from January 2016 through September 2018, then flattened through October 2022, according to a research letter published in the April 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Kao-Ping Chua, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, and colleagues examined trends in buprenorphine […]