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5.27.2010

Dealing with Dementia
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Approaches to dealing with dementia are detailed - from the LA Times

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5.26.2010

Here's a new game at Cognitive Labs
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Can you use your cognitive ability?



If so, try diner dash.

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Video Games Do Improve Mental Acuity
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An East Carolina University study covered in 1up.com shows that video games do improve cognitive ability...no surprise - look here

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Gandhi Test on Cognitive Labs
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Cognitive Labs in May 2010 continues 5-year run of year-to-year consecutive growth. The latest test is below.

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5.25.2010

Video Games and Dream Control
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Scientists are asserting that video gamers have more efficient control of the dreaming process, and may have more valid dream experiences than non-gamers.

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APOE E4 Interferes with Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury
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New Research has found that individuals who are APOE e4 positive may have great difficulties in recovering from Traumatic Brain Injury.

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5.24.2010

New Stem Cell Discovery in the Human Brain Tantalizes
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UCSF scientists have discovered a new stem cell in the developing human brain. The cell produces nerve cells that help form the neocortex - the site of higher cognitive function - and likely accounts for the dramatic expansion of the region in the lineages that lead to man, the researchers say.

Future studies of these cells are expected to shed light on developmental diseases such as autism and schizophrenia and malformations of brain development, including microcephaly, lissencephaly and neuronal migration disorders, they say, as well as age-related illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease.

See the Article in Nature.

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New Criteria proposed for diagnosing fibromyalgia
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The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) is proposing a new set of diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia that includes common symptoms such as fatigue, sleep disturbances, and cognitive problems, as well as pain. The new criteria are published in the May issue of the ACR journal Arthritis Care & Research.

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Fat Linked with Alzheimer's Onset
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Getting overweight is risky behavior according to recent research...adding pounds along with increased age may geometrically increase the risk of cognitive impairment.

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Creativity and Scitzophrenia May Share Smiliar Attributes in the Brain
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Creativity and a Mental Health Condition May Share Utilization of Dopamine Receptors in the Brain...

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Can you solve the Tower of Hanoi? Again
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Back to posting...The other day I solved the Tower of hanoi in 6 moves - since 7 is the minimum, this classifies as a possible breakthrough if it can be replicated.



As suspected, many dissertations in theoretical mathematics have been completed on the tower of hanoi, defined by the French mathematician Edouard Lucas in 1883 as a splendid example of a recursive algorithm.

Give it a try and see what you can do - on the Cognitive Labs site. Scroll and locate here. The best I've ever done before is the typical seven moves.

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