JUNEAU – The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) recently launched Healthy Living Southeast, www.HealthyLivingSE.org, an online, lifestyle magazine that aims to provide readers with the information needed to be successful in a journey toward health as well as to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Results from a national, decade-long study suggest that particular types of cognitive training can have lasting benefits for older adults. The study showed the training can help maintain certain thinking and reasoning skills, but at 10-year followup the memory training and control group had no differences in memory performance.
SAN FRANCISCO — Upon victory, an athlete’s initial and instinctive reaction is one that displays dominance over his or her opponent, according to a new study published Friday in the journal Motivation and Emotion.
Common advice to new parents is that the more words babies hear the faster their vocabulary grows. Now new findings show that what spurs early language development isn’t so much the quantity of words as the style of speech and social context in which speech occurs.