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- Music training has biological impact on aging process
- Early intervention may curb dangerous college drinking
- Alcohol and your heart: Friend or foe?
- Divorce hurts health more at earlier ages
- Willpower and desires: Turning up the volume on what you want most
- Lifelong payoff for attentive kindergarten kids
| Music training has biological impact on aging process Posted: 30 Jan 2012 02:24 PM PST Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to the first study to provide biological evidence that lifelong musical experience impacts the aging process. Measuring automatic brain responses of younger and older musicians and non-musicians to speech sounds, researchers found older musicians not only outperformed older non-musicians, they also encoded sound stimuli as quickly and accurately as younger non-musicians.  |
| Early intervention may curb dangerous college drinking Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:12 AM PST The first few weeks of college are a critical time in shaping students' drinking habits. Now researchers have a tailored approach that may help prevent students from becoming heavy drinkers.  |
| Alcohol and your heart: Friend or foe? Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:11 AM PST A meta-analysis of the relationship between alcohol consumption and heart disease provides new insight into the long-held belief that drinking a glass of red wine a day can help protect against heart disease.  |
| Divorce hurts health more at earlier ages Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:11 AM PST Divorce at a younger age hurts people's health more than divorce later in life, according to a new study.  |
| Willpower and desires: Turning up the volume on what you want most Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:43 AM PST Trying to resist that late-night tweet or checking your work email again? The bad news is that desires for work and entertainment often win out in the daily struggle for self-control, according to a new study that measures various desires and their regulation in daily life.  |
| Lifelong payoff for attentive kindergarten kids Posted: 29 Jan 2012 08:28 PM PST Attentiveness in kindergarten accurately predicts the development of "work-oriented" skills in school children, according to a new study.  |
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