JAMA Internal Medicine Study Highlights A research letter by Brian Wansink, Ph.D., and Aner Tal, Ph.D., of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., suggests that hungry grocery shoppers tend to buy higher-calorie products. The research included a laboratory study in which 68 paid participants were...
Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, Professor of Neurosciences and Physiology/Biophysics, and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, have discovered how to store diverse forms of artificial short-term...
The April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery reports that patients who undergo chemoradiation therapy (CRT), who perform specific swallowing exercises after their CRT, experience a short-term improvement in swallowing. The study also reveals that after nine or twelve...
Alcoholism can disrupt memory functioning well before incurring the profound amnesia of Korsakoff's syndrome. For example, associative memory - used in remembering face-name associations - can be impaired in alcoholics. A study of the cognitive and brain mechanisms underlying this deficit...
...interest rates? Having troubles with this Macroeconomics question :(
A. They usually move in lock-step with one another
B. They always move closely together
C. They don't always move closely together
D. They are independent of one another
Short-term memory plays a crucial role in how our consciousness operates. Several years ago a hypothesis has been formulated, according to which capacity of short-term memory depends in a special way on two cycles of brain electric activity. Scientists from the Nencki Institute of Experimental...
According to an investigation published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, one of JAMA/Archives journals, hip fracture is connected with an increase in short-term mortality (death within one year) for women between the ages of 65 to 79 years and for healthy women aged 80 years and...
I have accrued vacation/sick time and will be shortly going out on maternity leave. My director is unsure if I can use accrued time while also receiving short-term disability. I checked the employee handbook and this is not addressed. I have done this at one previous employer in the same...
would you recommend that the fed raise short-term interest rates. why or why not? should the fed instead use open-market operations to lower long-term rates?
An intense three-week course of radiation therapy is just as effective as the standard five-week regimen for women with early-stage breast cancer. Dr. Tim Whelan, a professor of oncology of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, led a team of researchers to find that...