Aging

Toddlers And Their Intuitive Understanding Of Probability

Children learn many skills simply by watching people around them. Without any explicit instructions, youngsters figure out how to do things like press a button to operate the television and twist a knob to open a door. Scholars have taken this further and ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2014 - 1:09pm

Complication Risk Of Deep Brain Stimulation For Parkinson Patients Not Age Related

For patients with advanced Parkinson disease who have involuntary movements, deep brain stimulation has been found to be an effective treatment for reducing motor disability and improving quality of life.  Some recent studies suggest that deep brain stimu ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2014 - 5:55pm

Older Women: Eat More Bananas, Cut Risk Of Stroke

Postmenopausal women who eat foods higher in potassium, like bananas, are less likely to have strokes and die than women who eat less potassium-rich foods, according to new research in Stroke. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2014 - 6:00pm

JAK/STAT: Why Age Reduces Our Ability To Repair Muscle

With age, our cells gradually lose their capacity to repair damage, even from normal wear and tear. A new paper discusses why this decline occurs in our skeletal muscle.  A team led by Dr. Michael Rudnicki, senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 7:00pm

Biologists Delay The Aging Process By 'Remote Control' Of A Gene

Biologists have found that increasing the amount of the gene AMPK that can slow the aging process throughout the entire body when activated remotely in key organ systems. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 10:01am

For Science? Patients With Advanced Dementia Get Medications Of Questionable Benefit

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Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 7:00am

Playing Before School Starts Reduces Hyperactivity In Kids

Reducing hyperactivity in kids may be as simple as getting them out to play. Kids are full of energy so having them trapped in a classroom all day from a young age isn't easy. For some, it is bordering on impossible and many of those have been saddle ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 9:31am

Here's To Wine, Chocolate And A Long Healthy Life

Good nose. Credit:  Lowjumpingfrog, CC BY By Joao Pedro de Magalhaes, University of Liverpool ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 15 2014 - 7:00pm

Aging Isn't Fixed, Which Means We Can Manipulate It

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Article - The Conversation - Sep 25 2014 - 10:30am

The Upside To An Aging Population

In the developed world, people are having fewer children and living longer and that has led to a population that is older than in the past. On average, life expectancy in developed countries has risen at a pace of three months per year, and fertility has ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2014 - 3:30pm