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| Hudson Institute's Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World
A war of ideas and more is underway within the Muslim world over its future direction. Will the Muslim world follow the guidance of Islamism or radical Islamic ideology and its known hostility to a moderate accommodation with modernity and democracy?
Please visit the project subsite at futureofmuslimworld.com | The Flynn Effect - In his study of IQ tests scores for different populations over the past sixty years, James R. Flynn discovered that IQ scores increased from one generation to the next for all of the countries for which data existed (Flynn, 1994). This interesting phenomena has been called "the Flynn Effect." Many of the questions about why this effect occurs have not yet been answered by researchers. This site attempts to explain the issues involved in a way that will better help you to understand the Flynn Effect. It also provides references for further inquiry. | New Evidence that Active Social Life Delays Memory Loss for Elderly
Seniors with highest social activity had the slowest rate of memory decline
June 4, 2008 - The evidence from respected researchers continues to mount showing that senior citizens can preserve their memory and cognitive abilities longer if they keep their minds and bodies active. The latest is a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers providing evidence that elderly people in the U.S. who have an active social life have a slower rate of memory decline. Press Releases - 2008 Releases
Active Social Life May Delay Memory Loss Among U.S. Elderly Population
For immediate release: May 29, 2008
Boston, MA -- One of the features of aging is memory loss, which can have devastating effects on the quality of life among older people. In a new study, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found evidence that elderly people in the U.S. who have an active social life may have a slower rate of memory decline. The study appears in the July 2008 issue of the American Journal of Public Health and appears in an advance online edition on May 29, 2008.
"We hope this study adds to and advances our growing understanding of the important role that social forces play in shaping health," said Karen Ertel, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at HSPH.
Previous studies have suggested that an active social life may reduce the risk of dementia and cognitive decline among the elderly. Memory loss is a strong risk factor for dementia, a syndrome estimated to affect up to 10% of the U.S. population 65 years and older. The researchers wanted to test whether memory loss might also be associated with social connectedness.
Ertel and her HSPH colleagues, senior author Lisa Berkman, chair of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, and Maria Glymour, assistant professor, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, used data gathered from 1998 to 2004 from the Health and Retirement Study, a large, nationally representative population of U.S. adults 50 years and older. (Previous studies were conducted outside of the U.S. or using smaller, non-representative population samples.) Memory was assessed in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004 by reading a list of ten common nouns to survey respondents, then asking them to recall as many words as possible immediately and after a five-minute delay. Social integration was assessed by marital status, volunteer activities, and contact with parents, children and neighbors.
The results showed that individuals with the highest social integration had the slowest rate of memory decline from 1998 to 2004. In fact, memory decline among the most integrated was less than half the rate among the least integrated. These findings were independent of sociodemographic factors (such as age, gender, and race) and health status in 1998. The researchers found that the protective effect of social integration was largest among individuals with fewer than 12 years of educatio | Health news - Higher IQ and active youth reduce risk of dementia
13 July 2005 - written by Michael Paterson for BUPA's health information team
A high IQ and taking part in after-school activities as a teenager may reduce your risk of memory problems in old age, according to a study published in this month's Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. | χ The Support Society for Children of High Intelligence.
CHI stands for 'The Support Society for Children of High Intelligence' and is a support organisation for the benefit of the young and intellectually gifted. Our mission is to act directly on behalf of individual children whose intelligence level is above the 98th percentile with the aim of helping them realise their potential. | The Dumbest Generation? Don’t Be Dumb.
George Santayana, too, despaired of a generation's ignorance, warning that 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' That was 1905.
Really, don't we all know by now that finding examples of teens' and twentysomethings' ignorance is like shooting fish in a barrel? If you want to exercise your eye-rolling or hand-wringing muscles, take your pick. Two thirds of high-school seniors in 2006 couldn't explain an old photo of a sign over a theater door reading COLORED ENTRANCE. In 2001, 52 percent identified Germany, Japan or Italy, not the Soviet Union, as America's World War II ally. One quarter of 18- to 24-year-olds in a 2004 survey drew a blank on Dick Cheney, and 28 percent didn't know William Rehnquist. The world's most heavily defended border? Mexico's with the United States, according to 30 percent of the same age group. We doubt that the 30 percent were boastful or delusional Minutemen.
| High-protein diets "aid baby IQ"
Thursday 21st February 2008
Premature babies which are fed high protein foods have higher IQ levels when they reach adolescence, a study suggests.
Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London tested verbal IQ levels among two groups of young people who were born prematurely.
One group had a high-protein diet in the four weeks after they were born, while the other subjects ate a standard diet.
But when they reached their teenage years, those given the diet rich in nutrients had higher IQs and bigger parts of their brains linked to intelligence levels. | Breast milk ‘does not boost IQ’ - The British Medical Journal study was carried out by the Medical Research Council and University of Edinburgh .Lead researcher Geoff Der said: “This question has been debated ever since a link between the two [high IQ and breastfeeding] was first discovered in 1929.”Breastfed children do tend to score higher on intelligence tests, but they also tend to come from more advantaged backgrounds.”The researchers analysed data from more than 5,000 children and 3,000 mothers in the US .They found that mothers who breastfed tended to be more intelligent, and when this fact was taken into account, most of the relationship between breastfeeding and the child’s intelligence disappeared.The rest was accounted for by other aspects of the family background.Sibling comparisonThe researchers also looked at families where one child was breastfed and another was | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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