Selon une étude préliminaire menée par des chercheurs de Shanghai, pratiquer quotidiennement une activité physique modérée à vigoureuse quand on est âgé de plus de 50 ans diminue significativement ...
Selon une étude préliminaire menée par des chercheurs de Shanghai, pratiquer quotidiennement une activité physique modérée à vigoureuse quand on est âgé de plus de 50 ans diminue significativement le risque de dépression, de démence et d’accident vasculaire cérébral (AVC).
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sédentarité
activité physique
psychologie et sport
psychologie
anxiété
sport
maladies cardiovasculaires
maladie d'alzheimer
dépression
bien-être
Une étude parue dans Science révèle que les enfants qui se distinguent très tôt ne seront généralement pas parmi les adultes les plus accomplis.
Une équipe internationale a examiné les...
Un diagnostic bouleversant a été posé en Chine : un jeune homme de 19 ans serait atteint de la maladie d'Alzheimer. Cette découverte remet en question nos connaissances sur cette pathologie. Commen...
Un diagnostic bouleversant a été posé en Chine : un jeune homme de 19 ans serait atteint de la maladie d'Alzheimer. Cette découverte remet en question nos connaissances sur cette pathologie. Comment expliquer l'apparition si précoce de cette maladie neurodégénérative ? Quelles implications pour...
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difficulté de concentration
hippocampe
recherche médicale
alzheimer précoce
forme précoce de la maladie d'alzheimer
jeune adulte
mémoire
cerveau
médecine
les tendances
Christine wanted to enjoy her retirement, but then the banks of a local brook burst and turned her and her neighbours’ lives upside-downWhen I visited Christine’s bungalow in Trowell, Nottinghamshi...
Christine wanted to enjoy her retirement, but then the banks of a local brook burst and turned her and her neighbours’ lives upside-downWhen I visited Christine’s bungalow in Trowell, Nottinghamshire, and asked if I should take my shoes off, she joked: “I wouldn’t worry, I’ll be getting a new carpet soon enough when it floods again.” She’s got another good one about the time she, a 70-year-old great-grandmother, had to climb through her conservatory window because her front and back doors had been sealed shut by flood barriers. “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry,” she says. And there is a lot to cry about: mainly the fact that her home is unsellable due to multiple floods.In 2020, the brook that backs on to Christine’s home burst its banks and water poured into her house, as well as the homes of her neighbours Jackie, 67, and Rhona, 76. As we sit around a table drinking tea, they tell me about having to rip out their floorboards, skirting boards, kitchen cupboards and entire bathrooms. Doors had to be taken off their hinges and thrown into skips. Fridges, washing machines, furniture, all joined the pile. Continue reading...
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uk news
england
environment
extreme weather
flooding
science
The monsoon season is crucial for agriculture, making up 80% of annual rainfall, but also extremely destructive January brings torrential rain to south-east Asia – more than 250mm fell in just two ...
The monsoon season is crucial for agriculture, making up 80% of annual rainfall, but also extremely destructive January brings torrential rain to south-east Asia – more than 250mm fell in just two days in Singapore last year. This is because of the monsoon, a pattern of wind and rainfall, the name of which stems from the Arabic word for “season”.The monsoon is sometimes described in terms of a sea breeze, in which the wind reverses direction in the morning and evening as the relative temperature of land and sea change, blowing out to sea at first and then inland as the land cools. Continue reading...
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asia pacific
environment
world news
extreme weather
science