Training your brain can improve food choice

Your general practice environment can improve your community's health.

British Journal of General Practice, July 2008 choices between personal income and service development, can only be part of the solution. Addressing the inverse care law is made difficult by three other problems: first, the front line of this part of the NHS is largely hidden from external view, as a result of its geographically scattered nature, the lack of evidence, limited nature of routine ...

How Can Search Engines Improve Your Writing?

The basis of the study reported in this article sprang from the assumption that incorporating the use of web search engines such as Google or Yahoo into English as a second language (ESL) writing may be useful for learners in identifying grammatical errors in their texts. The study has measured the effectiveness on reducing the number of grammatical errors by way of a simple method which divide...

The competitive food conundrum: can government regulations improve school food?

Can Cognitive Training Improve Episodic Memory?

Neuroscience-inspired approaches to train cognitive abilities are bringing about a paradigm shift in the way scientists view the treatment of memory dysfunction, but it can be challenging to prove whether such approaches have significant effects.

Can proprioceptive training improve motor learning?

Recent work has investigated the link between motor learning and sensory function in arm movement control. A number of findings are consistent with the idea that motor learning is associated with systematic changes to proprioception (Haith A, Jackson C, Mial R, Vijayakumar S. Adv Neural Inf Process Syst 21: 593-600, 2008; Ostry DJ, Darainy M, Mattar AA, Wong J, Gribble PL. J Neurosci 30: 5384-5...