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Musical training gives people a surprising advantage
9+ hour, 6+ min ago (1022+ words) Musical training made volunteers quicker to anticipate a pattern, but two minutes of watching a different one undid most of their gains. Getting faster at a movement pattern looks like getting smoother, and for a while it is. But push…...
Two psychiatrists agree on the same diagnosis only 55% of the time
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1013+ words) Psychiatrists given the same cases agreed on a diagnosis only 55% of the time, revealing striking differences in how symptoms are interpreted. A psychiatric diagnosis can shape treatment, communication among doctors, and expectations about a person’s condition. For that system to…...
Poor families could spend half their income on food by 2050
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (867+ words) By 2050, poorer households in some regions could spend around half their income on food as gaps in food, energy, and water security widen. The world in 2050 might look wildly different depending on where you live and how much you earn....
Nature groups may be most effective for people with deeper loneliness
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1037+ words) Nature-based social prescribing eased loneliness in a Barcelona trial, but only the loneliest participants needed the nine-week group. In parts of Europe, a doctor can now hand a lonely patient a referral to a gardening club or a walking group…...
Laughter therapy helps people with COPD breathe easier
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (973+ words) A small trial found that laughter therapy and pursed-lip breathing reduced reported breathlessness in people with COPD. Breathing is something most people barely notice until it becomes difficult. For people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, feeling short of…...
Human consciousness: Memory may be written in a secret chemical code
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (795+ words) Memory and consciousness may be encoded in the chemistry of the mesh packed around brain cells, not in the signals passing between them. Twenty years after you last heard it, a song comes on and the memory arrives with the…...
Alzheimer’s ‘ambiguous loss’: the silent mourning that begins before death
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (812+ words) Ambiguous loss describes the grief of watching a loved one with dementia change while still physically present, a form of caregiver distress. A daughter visits her mother every evening. Some days her mother knows her, some days she does not....
How you think about aging can predict your social life years later
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (1089+ words) Beliefs about aging predicted how many hours adults later spent with family and friends, and a busy social life predicted nothing. People often assume that a busy social life leads to a more positive view of growing older. New research…...
Students learned two ways to handle bad memories, but only one carried into daily life
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (1132+ words) Five weeks of emotion training reduced distress in college students, with the clearest change coming from where they directed their attention. When something goes wrong, plenty of people try to talk themselves into a better view of it. College students…...
British politicians think voters oppose climate policies, but polling shows otherwise
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (1081+ words) British MPs underestimate public support for climate policies and see voters as far more divided than polling suggests. Politicians decide what they can safely say by reading the public mood. When 100 sitting members of the British Parliament were asked to…...