Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Stroke Impacts Learning in Remote Brain Areas: New Therapy Success

In a new study, researchers from the Bernstein Network and the Universities of Göttingen and Jena now show that a stroke even affects the learning ability of…

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72% of Job Losses Lead to Skipped Health Care Needs

Nearly three-quarters (72%) of people who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs over the last two years said that they skipped needed health…

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Extreme Morning Sickness Linked to Kids’ Emotional Disorders

A joint study by UCLA and the University of Southern California has found that children whose mothers suffered from HG while carrying them were 3.6 times more…

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Inactivity Linked to Type 2 Diabetes Risk in New MU Study

79 million American adults have prediabetes and will likely develop diabetes later in life, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the…

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Taxpayer Film Subsidies Linked to Increased Youth Smoking

According to a survey published in PLoS Medicine, those subsidies, along with government inaction on stricter ratings for movies that depict smoking, also…

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How Visual Annual Reports Boost Company Valuation

As firms begin the 2011 annual report process, which many do at this time of year, they may want to pay closer attention to the way those reports look. A…

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Decision making changes with age — and age helps!

So, rather than testing the ability to make decisions one at a time without regard to past or future, as earlier research did, these psychologists designed a…

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Job Trends Reignite Gender Inequality in the Workplace

A study by sociologists from Indiana University and Cornell University finds that the growing trend of overworking — working 50 hours a week or more — is…

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Poverty and National Parks: Decade-Long Study Finds Surprising Relationship

Yes, according to the conventional wisdom, but no, according to a 10-year study of people living around Kibale National Park in Uganda that was published this…

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How Job Loss Changes Men’s Domestic Roles in Recession

But how do unemployed men cope with their shifting domestic roles, especially when they become financially dependent on a wife or female partner? One…

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Boys Feel Discussing Problems Is Waste of Time, MU Study Finds

A new University of Missouri study finds that boys feel that discussing problems is a waste of time.“For years, popular psychologists have insisted that boys…

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Low Antidepressant Completion Among Ohio Medicaid Kids

Among those at the highest risk for not completing treatment are adolescents – as opposed to younger children – and minority youths, particularly African…

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Food Security Boosts Wildlife: Insights from Zambia’s COMACO

Known as COMACO (Community Markets for Conservation), the program began in Zambia in 2003 and has resulted in wildlife populations stabilizing and rebounding…

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Community Efforts to Combat Alcohol Outlet Violence

Communities with greater levels of disorganization, marked by higher percentages of people living in poverty and in women-headed households with children and…

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Stanford Study Links Narcolepsy to Influenza Infection

The findings, which will be published online Aug. 22 in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society,…

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Weight Gain Trends: Men Post-Divorce, Women Post-Marriage

But when it comes to large weight gains, the effects of marital transitions are quite different for men than they are for women.For men, the risk of a large…

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