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- Kids born just a few weeks early at risk of behavioral problems, study suggests
- Researchers evaluate rice as a source of fetal arsenic exposure
- Physical fitness trumps body weight in reducing death risks, study finds
- Orphaned children exhibit genetic changes that require nurturing parents, study finds
- Confidence is key to women's spatial skills
- Listening to music lights up the whole brain
- How muscle fatigue originates in the head
- 'All work' won't help 'no play:' Professor scrutinises link between job and life satisfaction
| Kids born just a few weeks early at risk of behavioral problems, study suggests Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:17 PM PST Children born just a few weeks too early are significantly more likely to have behavioral and/or emotional problems in the pre-school years, new research suggests. |
| Researchers evaluate rice as a source of fetal arsenic exposure Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:59 PM PST A new study advances our understanding of the sources of human exposure to arsenic and focuses attention on the potential for consuming harmful levels of arsenic via rice. Arsenic occurs naturally in the environment and in elevated concentrations it can be harmful to human health. Rice is susceptible to arsenic contamination due to its ability to extract arsenic from the environment into the rice plant. |
| Physical fitness trumps body weight in reducing death risks, study finds Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:51 PM PST Maintaining or improving physical fitness is linked to lower death risks even after controlling for BMI change, according to a new study. Becoming less fit is associated with higher death risks, regardless of BMI changes. BMI change was not associated with death risks. |
| Orphaned children exhibit genetic changes that require nurturing parents, study finds Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:05 AM PST Children who experience the stress of separation at birth from biological parents and are brought up in orphanages undergo biological consequences such as changes in their genome functioning, researchers report in a new study. |
| Confidence is key to women's spatial skills Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:23 AM PST Boosting a woman's confidence makes her better at spatial tasks, scientists have found, suggesting skills such as parking and map-reading could come more easily if a woman is feeling good about herself. |
| Listening to music lights up the whole brain Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:17 AM PST Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new method that allows to study how the brain processes different aspects of music, such as rhythm, tonality and timbre (sound color) in a realistic listening situation. |
| How muscle fatigue originates in the head Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:16 AM PST Researchers have now studied in detail what sportsmen and women know from experience: The head plays a key role in tiring endurance performances. They have discovered a mechanism in the brain that triggers a reduction in muscle performance during tiring activities and ensures that one's own physiological limits are not exceeded. For the first time, the study demonstrates empirically that muscle fatigue and changes in the interaction between neuronal structures are linked. |
| 'All work' won't help 'no play:' Professor scrutinises link between job and life satisfaction Posted: 02 Dec 2011 06:10 AM PST Researchers investigated the idea that employees who are dissatisfied in their personal lives seek 'compensatory rewards' through work, but found that this is hardly ever successful. The study found that in most countries there is an overall link between job and life satisfaction, especially for the main earners in households but, crucially, this would not extend to anyone attempting to use work to compensate for unhappiness in their personal life. |
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