Calorie-dense junk foods are almost twice as distracting as healthy foods, study finds
Even when people are hard at work, pictures of cookies, pizza and ice cream can distract them -- and these...
Read moreEven when people are hard at work, pictures of cookies, pizza and ice cream can distract them -- and these...
Read moreOne of the two brain-training methods most scientists use in research is significantly better in improving memory and attention, Johns...
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Read moreThe rate of adolescents reporting a recent bout of clinical depression grew by 37 percent over the decade ending in...
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Read moreJohns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Unlike...
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Read moreAlthough math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergarteners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising...
Read moreJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers have found that increases in unemployment in California during the Great Recession...
Read moreRats that responded to cues for sugar with the speed and excitement of binge-eaters were less motivated for the treat...
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