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Do you drink coffee to "wake up" your brain? A first-of-its-kind study has found that just 20 minutes of exercise works just as well coffee to boost working memory. In addition, exercise can help with ...
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For nearly 40 years, researchers have claimed that men have an advantage on test of spatial cognition. But new research from the Leo Esports Science Lab in Ireland has found that it's not true. Their ...
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If you're worried that your teen didn't score that well on the ACTs, you may want to refocus on their GPA. That's because a new study from the University of Chicago has found that GPAs are stronger ...
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If you've been telling yourself that the jury is still out in terms of the harm of screen time for preschoolers, the jury might have just returned. New studies done by the Reading & Literacy Discovery ...
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The short answer is "no." A German research tea look at the brains of 330 older adults and found that the size of the hippocampus is only beneficial to people who also have more white-matter circuitry ...
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Research published in the January 27, 2020 edition of JNeurosci indicates that iron levels in the brain tissue rise during development and are linked to cognitive abilities. This research on both ...
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February 27 is National “No-Brainer” Day, created to celebrate “no-brainers:” concepts and tasks that are simple, easy and obvious to most people. But for people with learning struggles, tasks ...
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Our understanding of the brain increases with each passing year, thanks to advances in technology and medicine. We have new methods to study it, improve it and even fix it, but sometimes the big ...
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Melanie was struggling with reading fluency and confidence in school, so her parents enrolled her in LearningRx personal brain training after a cognitive skills assessment showed them where Melanie’s ...
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When Quinn’s mom noticed he was struggling with attention, test anxiety and organization, she enrolled him in LearningRx personal brain training. Just a few weeks into the program, his teachers ...
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