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• Mosquitoes smell you better at night
• Study reveals the face of sleep deprivation
• Brain imaging study reveals the wandering mind behind insomnia
• Exercising one day a week may be enough for older women
• Overweight and obese women are equally capable of the impulse control that lean women exhibit
• Music lessons enhance the quality of school life
• Children who go to daycare may benefit from a wider variety of social situations
• Alcohol breaks brain connections needed to process social cues
• Jet lag: Why the body clock is slow to adjust to time changes

Mosquitoes smell you better at night Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:13 PM PDT The major malaria vector in Africa, the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, is able to smell major human host odorants better at night.

Study reveals the face of sleep deprivation Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:13 PM PDT A new study finds that sleep deprivation affects facial features such as the eyes, mouth and skin, and these features function as cues of sleep loss to other people.

Brain imaging study reveals the wandering mind behind insomnia Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:13 PM PDT A new brain imaging study may help explain why people with insomnia often complain that they struggle to concentrate during the day even when objective evidence of a cognitive problem is lacking.

Exercising one day a week may be enough for older women Posted: 30 Aug 2013 11:38 AM PDT A new study reveals that women over age 60 may need to exercise only one day a week to significantly improve strength and endurance.

Overweight and obese women are equally capable of the impulse control that lean women exhibit Posted: 30 Aug 2013 10:10 AM PDT Previous studies have shown that overweight and obese people have a harder time delaying gratification, so they are more likely to forego the healthy body later on in favor of eating more calorie-dense foods now. But new research now shows that behavioral interventions that improve delay of gratification can work just as well with overweight and obese women as with lean women.

Music lessons enhance the quality of school life Posted: 30 Aug 2013 06:17 AM PDT A new study examined whether an extended music education had an impact on pupils' experienced satisfaction with the school. Nearly a thousand pupils at ten Finnish schools with extended music classes and comparison classes participated on a survey that measured the quality of school life at Year 3 and Year 6.

Children who go to daycare may benefit from a wider variety of social situations Posted: 30 Aug 2013 06:17 AM PDT Children who go to daycare may benefit from a wider variety of social and communicative situations relative to children who do not go to daycare, a recent study suggests.  The former have a heightened ability to adjust their non-verbal communication to take into account the age of the person they are playing with.

Alcohol breaks brain connections needed to process social cues Posted: 29 Aug 2013 11:49 AM PDT Alcohol intoxication reduces communication between two areas of the brain that work together to properly interpret and respond to social signals, according to researchers.

Jet lag: Why the body clock is slow to adjust to time changes Posted: 29 Aug 2013 09:40 AM PDT New research in mice reveals why the body is so slow to recover from jet lag. The study identifies a target for the development of drugs that could help us to adjust faster to changes in time zone.

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