Home Subscribe Publications Advertise with us Write for Us Donate About Us Login Centre November 30, 2022 Blog Cover Themes Edu Landscape Edu News Edu Resource Edu Retreat Edu Services Edu Support Skill Academy Login Centre National Edu News: Specialised Training Required for Implementing ECCE: Dr Venita Kaul | Cover Story: Elimination Round or Aptitude Test- How to Align CUET with NEP 2020 Goals | Life Inspirations: Master of a Dog House | Education Information: Climate Predictions: Is it all a Piffle! | Leadership Instincts: Raj Mashruwala Establishes CfHE Vagbhata Chair in Medical Devices at IITH | Parent Interventions: What Books Children Must Read this Summer Vacation | Rajagiri Round Table: Is Time Ripe for Entrepreneurial Universities in India? | Life Inspirations: How to Overcome Fear of Public Speaking | Teacher Insights: Guided Play Effective for Children | Teacher Insights: Doing Calculations Boosts Mental Strength | Best Practices: Hugging for Happiness | Parent Interventions: Is Frequent Childcare Outside of the Family Beneficial for a Child's Development | Health Monitor: How to Measure Attention? | Life Inspirations: From BC to AC: What Has Changed in Pandemic and What Has Not | Guest Column: The Biting Army | Home Edu News Health Monitor Search for: Health Monitor 04-03-2022 How to Measure Attention? Attention is central to many aspects of cognition, but there is no singular neural measure of a person’s overall attentional functioning across tasks.Using a model of fMRI data collected from 92 individuals performing several types of attention-related tasks, the lab of Yale's Marvin Chun successfully predicted how well those individuals would perform on the tasks based on their brain scans alone. This generalized model can also predict the severity of an individual case of... 24-02-2022 Are You Thirsty? When we are thirsty, we drink water. But the science behind that decision is pretty complicated.Our brain needs to make sure that we need to consume the right a... 16-02-2022 How Lasting Memories are created in Br... In a study conducted by Northwestern University where they analyzed the brain recording of children and adolescents they found that as brains mature, the precis... 11-02-2022 Increase Life Expectancy by 10 Years T... A study by University of Bergen researchers has shown that diet changes can improve life expectancy by 10 years. A calculator named Food4HealthyLife was develop... 24-01-2022 Attention and Memory Deficits in Peopl... After severe Covid-19 infection, some people can continue to suffer from cognitive symptoms such as difficulties in concentrating, as well as forgetfulness and fatigue – features of the ‘long Covid’ syndrome. Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Nuffield's Department of Clinical Neurosciences have shown that people who have had Covid but don’t complain of long Covid symptoms in daily life nevertheless can show degraded attention ... 20-01-2022 Social Media Use Likely to Affect the ... High levels of social media use or screen time may negatively affect physical health in multiple ways. For example, it may reduce users’ amount and quality of... 19-01-2022 Lifestyle Interventions from Early Chi... The school environment is a great area to introduce lifestyle interventions because children are spending so much of their time there. 4-5 years of age is the m... 14-01-2022 Forgetting is a Form of Learning Humans create countless memories. Some we recall and some others hide deep within our mind. We all are accustomed to the general assumption that memories simply... 13-01-2022 Is There a Blue Spot Inside our Brain? When you are walking inattentively through a road and suddenly a car honks and you shift your attention immediately to the blowing of the horn.Have you ever thought about how suddenly our attention shifts? This is due to the presence of the blue spot- a tiny cell hidden deep inside our brain.The 'locus coeruleus' or the blue spot is the main source of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline which helps us control our attention focus.While we are inattentive our brains are governed... 29-11-2021 Another Mutated Variant of Covid-19 is... All variants of COVID-19, including the Delta variant that is dominant worldwide and can cause severe disease or death, for the most vulnerable people, an... 22-07-2021 Understanding ‘Haemorrhage' Nowadays it’s become common news that someone has collapsed and died. The term has become quite relevant to think over the cause of such deaths and alarms us ... 24-06-2021 Be in Good Voice Voice is the medium through which one communicates to the outside world and how one expresses his ideas and emotions. Voice gives personality or identity to an ... 12345
