Tag: adults
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Yes, Heat Can Affect Your Brain and Mood Here’s Why
AleksandarGeorgiev/Getty Images If you’re feeling a bit brain-fogged these days, you might not be wrong to blame it on the heat. Several summers back, researchers in Boston studied young adults living in college dorm rooms during a heat wave. Some had central AC and slept at a cool 71 degrees Fahrenheit. Others slept in rooms…
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How To Deal With Your Childhood Trauma As An Adult
Vicky Leta – In-House Art Recovering from trauma is hard no matter when it happens. However, if adversity happens during childhood, it can be especially hard to overcome. Unlike adults, children have very little control over their environment. If a child is living in an abusive home, their ability to remove themselves from that environment…
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Living With Pets May Slow Decline of Cognitive Skills In Older Adults
© STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images A large British study suggests that living with others, whether another person, or even a pet, may slow down the decline in cognitive skills that tends to come as people age. Cognitive decline in older adults is a major public health issue, with almost 10% of U.S. adults ages 65 and older estimated to have dementia, and…
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Scientists Find Evidence of a Universal, Non-Verbal Communication System
(Yoshiyoshi Hirokawa/Getty Images) Deep down, everyone just wants to be understood. And regardless of what language we speak, or whether we are blind or sighted, new research hints at a shared, universal non-verbal communication system that comes to life when we gesture without talking. The study of children aged 3 to 12 years old was led by…
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