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Fidgeting in adults with ADHD may serve as a compensatory mechanism to sustain attention during cognitively demanding tasks, particularly during correct task performance and when reaction time variability is low. Highlights: Fidgeting was significantly higher…
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Hypertension in older adults leads to poorer cognitive and walking performance due to the need for more brain resources to manage dual tasks. Highlights: Older adults with hypertension show higher brain activation in motor and sensory areas when performing dua…
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is emerging as a revolutionary tool in enhancing cognitive functions, with over sixty studies indicating significant improvements in various tasks. Unlike traditional pharmaceutical approaches, TMS offers a non-invasive…
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Stimulants like caffeine, methylphenidate, and modafinil have repeatedly been shown to boost cognitive abilities such as attention, focus, and memory in healthy individuals. A new study provides insight into the underlying brain mechanisms of this cognitive en…
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Cognitive enhancement techniques hold great promise for boosting our mental abilities, but they may also come with hidden costs according to new research. Key Facts: Cognitive enhancement aims to improve mental functioning in healthy people through methods lik…
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Albert Einstein is widely regarded as one of the greatest physicists and intellectuals in human history. His theories of relativity revolutionized our understanding of space, time, gravity and energy. Not surprisingly, there has been great interest in understa…
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A large new study finds that exposure to common industrial solvents on the job is associated with reduced cognitive performance, especially in men. Key findings show: Men exposed to solvents like gasoline, trichlorethylene, white spirit or cellulosic thinners…
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Education has long been thought to improve cognitive abilities like intelligence. But does simply spending more years in school actually make people smarter? A new meta-analysis of quasi-experimental studies provides compelling evidence that education signific…
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