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The components and effects of home rehabilitation on activities of daily living and physical performance of community dwelling older people with low physical performance - a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
CONCLUSION: Home rehabilitation comprises three main intervention approaches. The Activity-based and Exercise-based yield small improvements in BADL and physical performance. Evidence for other ADL outcomes and the Reablement-based remains limited.
Effects of aging on recognition and dominance perception in laughter
INTRODUCTION: Aging is associated with reduced accuracy in recognizing others' emotions, an ability that is important for maintaining social connectedness in later life. Laughter is a social signal with multiple functions, as it can facilitate social bonding but also convey negative social meanings, for example when directed at someone. In previous research we have shown that younger adults are able to classify spontaneously emitted joyful, schadenfreude, and tickling laughter above chance...
Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Physiological Risk Factors for Falls
CONCLUSION: Conclusion: Fallers presented more depressive symptoms, morbidities, polypharmacy, and worse subjective health status. Depressive symptoms do not act directly over the number of falls; nonetheless, those with depressive symptoms presented a higher chance of falling, which may be associated to slower reaction time. Psychological symptoms play an important role in falls, and should, therefore, be considered in identifying older people at risk and in developing prevention programs.
Proposed new satellite fleets could overwhelm the night sky
Orbiting data centers and sunlight reflectors would scupper astronomy by leaving streaks on telescope images and brightening skies, study finds
Modern neuroscience is rediscovering an idea Freud had 130 years ago
What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that today's leading theory of the brain—as a prediction machine constantly anticipating the world—closely mirrors ideas psychoanalysis has explored for more than a century.