Do you ever wish you took advantage of those naps as a little kid? Our lives now are extremely busy and exhausting, we are sleep deprived, and can’t seem to find a minute to just relax. I know as a college student I am constantly trying to cram in just a 20 minute nap hoping to have more energy when I wake up, and according to new research, these afternoon naps I try and fit into my daily schedule actually are quite beneficial. A new study found “that young adults who slept for 90 minutes after lunch raised their learning power, [and] their memory apparently primed to absorb new facts,” reports Roni Caryn Rabin from The New York Times.
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A new study revealed that a hormone that strengthens the relationship between mother and baby may be beneficial for adults with autism. JoAnne Allen from Reuters reports, “[Researchers] found patients who inhaled the hormone oxytocin paid more attention to expressions when looking at pictures of faces and were more likely to understand social cues in a game simulation.” According to Allen, “Angela Sirigu of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience in Lyon, who led the study, said the hormone has a therapeutic potential in adults as well as in children with autism.”
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The internet is becoming the go-to solution for almost everything. People use the internet for a news source, for communicating, for research, for entertainment, and now more and more people are using the web to look up health information. According to the first National Health Interview Survey, in one year a little over half of U.S. adults used the internet to look up health information.
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A new study shows that children who are exposed to secondhand smoke have a higher chance of having emphysema as adults. Gina S. Lovasi, PhD, states that, “Structural and quantitative indices of emphysema differed significantly on CT lung scans of adults with a childhood history of secondhand smoke exposure compared with those with a negative exposure history.”
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