Irregular sleep linked to lower fluid intelligence in UK Biobank cohort
An exploratory UK Biobank cohort study found that greater night-to-night sleep variability was associated with lower subsequent fluid-intelligence scores, but ...
Tag: cognitive performance
Indoor Air Pollution Slows the Brain Within Hours, Landmark Chamber Study Finds
A controlled chamber experiment in London shows that 90 minutes of exposure to typical indoor fine particulate matter levels significantly ...
Momentary Stress Speeds Up the Aging Brain—But Only for a While, Smartphone Study Finds
A new smartphone-based study of 123 cognitively healthy older adults finds that momentary stress spikes speed up processing speed early ...
What Your Workday Does to Your Brain: Movement, Sitting and Midlife Cognition
A Finnish study of over 1,000 middle-aged employees using accelerometers and compositional data analysis found that links between daily movement ...
Heavier Athletes’ Brains Respond Differently to Dehydration During Exercise, Study Finds
A preliminary BMC Neuroscience study found that male athletes with high body mass index showed different prefrontal cortex oxygenation patterns ...
Trouble Waking Up May Signal Slower Thinking in Older Adults, Study Finds
A study of 461 older adults in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort found that more severe sleep inertia was associated with ...
Surgeons-in-Training Turn to Meditation Before the Scalpel, and It Works
A feasibility study at the University of Wisconsin found that nearly all surgical interns embraced guided meditation warm-ups before simulation ...
Heart Health, Mood and Memory Each Carry Independent Clues to Early Death Risk
A longitudinal study of 1,466 middle-aged urban adults found that cardiovascular health, depressive symptom trajectories and cognitive performance each independently ...
Dirty Air Is Quietly Draining China’s Scientific Output, Study Finds
A new Nature Human Behaviour study shows that PM2.5 air pollution causally reduces the publication output of Chinese scholars, cutting ...
Fatigue and Slower Thinking Predict When We Override Exhaustion
A coordinated analysis of six experience sampling studies shows that momentary fatigue and slower processing speed reliably predict when people ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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