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One of the things I mostly hated in school was having to practise my caligraphy skills, I found it monotonous and uninspiring. However, despite not having served to improve my handwriting, it may have helped me fixate new information during my studies, as new research points towards handwriting being better than typing for learning and memory.
As a recent mom, I can attest to the fact that at least some humans don’t quite get enough sleep, but the thing is, independently of why my baby thinks sleep is for cowards, in a new article researchers Charles Nunn and David Charles, have shown by comparing sleep patterns of 30 species of primates…
It might begin to sound redundant, all these posts about sleep and all but what can I say, if when you look outside the only thing you feel like doing is napping until next spring…anyhoo, since we are awake let’s try do something useful: LEARN. What about? sleep and eating habits. What does one have…
Recent research has demonstrated that obesity impairs the mechanisms that allow our brains to realise when our stomachs are full and that these changes are maintained despite dieting, giving insights into why it is difficult for obese people to avoid excessive eating and why there is often a yo-yo effect after dieting. It has been…
It was long since I brought some really cool pictures to you, but no worries because the winners from the Olympus Bioscapes 2011 just came out and here I show you some of my favourites, even if I don’t totally concur with the opinion of the jury on the classification of the winners. To me…
Typically, psychiatric diseases come more than one at a time. That is why patients often fit the profile of more than one disease. Until know, it was unclear why this was the case. Recent research seems to have thrown light to this question, as it identified a brain network common to at least six psychiatric…
I don’t know about you, but since I am getting older I realize there are things that I find scarier as before. For example, when I see kids learning to ski, I always wonder at the ease with which they let themselves go down a mountain, while I cannot stop thinking if by the time…