Health News

Reading ability severely impaired by schizophrenia

People with schizophrenia are likely to have severely impaired reading ability, a new study has shown. A systematic review by researchers at Brunel University London’s Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) found that those who have been diagnosed as having schizophrenia are likely to have difficulty recognizing, manipulating and pronouncing individual sounds, and understanding written text. […]

Health Problems

‘Reading’ with aphasia is easier than ‘running’

Neurolinguists from HSE University have confirmed experimentally that for people with aphasia, it is easier to retrieve verbs describing situations with several participants (such as ‘someone is doing something’), although such verbs give rise to more grammar difficulties. The results of the study have been published in Aphasiology. A common symptom of aphasia (language impairment […]

Health News

Harry Potter Fans Make Better Partners, Study Says

If your bae-to-be is a huge fan of Harry Potter then science says he’s probably a keeper.  Yep, get ready to have your mind Confringo-ed – new research has found that Harry Potter lovers have more mature, positive beliefs about romantic relationships. The study – published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the […]