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...that certain cognitive processes become temporarily less efficient at puberty. McGivern and his associates timed 300 subjects, ages 10 to 22, as they did a very simple set of matching tasks involving pictures of facial expressions and words describing them (happy, angry, sad). The study found that around the onset of puberty (about age 11 for girls and 12 for boys), people take significantly longer to do this easy task. McGivern and his associates attributed the slow pace to the excess number of synapses in the brain at puberty - essentially, too many connections that have yet to be pruned...
...researchers’ recent findings corroborate a growing body of evidence that points to a correlation between the consumption of vitamin D and the onset...
...findings, released online last Tuesday by the American Academy of Neurology, suggest that vitamin D and milk may help prevent the onset of debilitating autoimmune disease starting from gestation...
With just two days before the Winter Olympics are set to get under way in Vancouver, NBC officials should be celebrating the onset of a much needed prime-time-ratings boost. But now they may be cursing their continuing bad luck. That's because American skier Lindsey Vonn, the blond speed beauty whose quest for five medals over the two weeks of the Olympics was supposed to boost ratings to Michael Phelps-ian levels, might be forced to sit out these Games. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...study also shows that PKR directly interferes with normal insulin function in a way that could lead to the onset of type 2 diabetes...