Nutrition plays an important role in optimal mental function. Dietary constituents may influence brain function through acute effects from a single dose and/or chronic effects of daily intake. So, if you are preparing a difficult exam or you are involved in a sport competition that requires coordination, decision-making, timing and other cognitive task this may be of your interest. ...
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Despite decades of efforts, one of the greatest mysteries in biology is why sleep is restorative and, conversely, why lack of sleep impairs brain function. Sleep deprivation reduce learning, impairs performance in cognitive test, prolongs reaction time, and is a common cause of seizures. So, how the system works? It seems that toxic by-products produced during waking time are cleared during...
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Sleep patterns change markedly with adolescence development and across the second decade of life. Parents often note a switch-like shift from an early-to-bed and early-to-rise in fourth and fifth grader to a late-to-bed and impossible-to-wake in high-school students. As noted, a principal feature of adolescent sleep is a marked trend for the timing of sleep to occur later in the day, however...
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In occasion of The PEGASO Project Presentation @Liceo Scientifico Elio Vittorini, Milano, an Italian Version of the Technology Use Questionnaire has been released The questionnaire is part of the Research activities of Task 3.1 Find the questionnaire at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kI3SLxgfDH4vPh_lQlU7rD_ZERzMX7eLOmVbwsC0FZo/viewform
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