Analysis of medicinal cannabinoids and their impact on six mental health disorders -- combining 83 studies including 3,000 people -- suggests that the use of cannabinoids for mental health conditions cannot be justified based on the current evidence.
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The popular view that music enhances creativity has been challenged by researchers who say it has the opposite effect.
Psychologists investigated the impact of background music on performance by presenting people with verbal insight problems that are believed to tap creativity.
They found that background music 'significantly impaired' people's ability to complete tasks testing verbal creativity -- but there was no effect for background library noise.
How listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity
The popular view that music enhances creativity has been challenged by researchers who say it has the opposite effect. Psychologists investigated the impact of background music on performance by presenting people with verbal insight problems that are believed to tap creativity. They found that background music 'significantly impaired' people's ability to complete tasks testing verbal creativity -- but there was no effect for background library noise.
Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public health crisis
Study: People are strongly influenced by gossip even when it is explicitly untrustworthy
The experiments show that we tend to judge people on a strongly emotional basis, even if this judgment is knowingly based on unreliable evidence.
Poor sleep linked to buildup of dangerous plaques throughout body.
Researchers found that subjects who slept fewer than six hours were 27% more likely to have atherosclerosis throughout the body than those who slept seven to eight hours.
Poor sleep linked to buildup of dangerous plaques throughout body
Here's another reason why getting a good night's sleep should be on your must-do list: Sleeping fewer than six hours a night or waking frequently raises your risk of developing damaging plaque in arteries throughout your body, not just your heart.
'Dropout' rate for academic scientists has risen sharply in past 50 years, new study finds. Half of the people pursuing careers as scientists at higher education institutions will drop out of the field after five years, according to a new analysis.
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1TB hard drives are now over a decade old.
"There's no evidence that dietary diversity promotes healthy body weight or optimal eating patterns. Limited evidence shows that eating a variety of foods is actually associated with more calories, poor eating patterns and weight gain. There is some evidence that a greater variety of food options in a single meal may delay people's feeling of fullness and actually increase how much they eat."
Real Progress in Parkinson’s
"Now there’s a paper out (from a large multinational team) that shows that surgical removal of the appendix is correlated with lower risk of Parkinson’s."
"So it’s looking more and more as if the trail of Parkinson’s does lead back to the GI tract, and perhaps from there back to the appendix."
Real Progress in Parkinson's
There have been some potentially significant developments in Parkinson's disease, which is a good thing to be able to report. As populations age around the world, PD has been on its way up, but therapies for it have not been, despite a good deal of work in the field. But it looks like some clues are
More money you make, more fast food you eat...
According to the survey, which was conducted from 2013 to 2016, fast food was eaten 42 percent more by higher-income Americans than it was by lower-income Americans.
“It’s the simple formula that people who make more money often work longer hours, are in more of a hurry, get shorter lunch breaks, eat on the go,” Taffer said. “It’s cheaper [and] easier to get.”
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