For the past five years or so, high-intensity interval training, or HIIT, has been one of the most popular and
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How do we learn to learn? New research offers an education
Cognitive training designed to focus on what’s important while ignoring distractions can enhance the brain’s information processing, enabling the ability
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New insights into how the infant microbiome impacts early childhood behavior in boys and girls
A new Dartmouth-led study published in Pediatric Research has found a direct and sex-specific association between the composition of infant
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How to stop fixating on the daily COVID numbers
Daily updates of COVID case numbers have been part of our pandemic lives. These numbers are reported, analyzed and widely
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Researchers reveal how nicotine influences hippocampal-dependent cognition
Nicotine ingested from smoking exerts neuroprotection and developmental neurotoxicity in the central nervous system. It can produce changes of cognitive
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How the microbiome affects human health
The term “microbiome” is shorthand for the vast and still largely unexplored worlds of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms
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How to increase lung capacity
Whether you’re reaching the summit of a mountain or coming to the end of a HIIT class, most of us
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How did cement end up in a man’s heart?
A man’s chest pain had an unusual cause — there was a 4-inch piece of cement in his heart, which
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Researchers shed light on how to keep sepsis from becoming fatal
Sepsis, the body’s life-threatening response to infection affecting about 1.7 million adults in the United States each year, can lead
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How the brain accounts for uncertainties in motor planning
In baseball, a pitch can take as little as 400 milliseconds to reach the plate. With a typical reaction time
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