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Trouble switching between tasks may flag Alzheimer’s years before memory fades, scientists say

Subtle trouble juggling two tasks at once may signal Alzheimer’s disease risk years before the memory problems that doctors typically screen for, according to a body of peer-reviewed research linking ...
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Task switching between organ types increases patient mortality rates

When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8 percent, according to new Virginia Tech research. The ...
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Task switching raises risk in transplant surgeries, study finds

When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8%, according to new Virginia Tech research. The findings ...
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Study finds hypothalamus helps switch between survival tasks

The hypothalamus is a small region of the human brain typically associated with regulating body temperature, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and sleep. But it also has another important role: helping the ...

For those who feel tired every time you switch tasks—what you can do to reduce stress

You check your email while in the middle of creating a document. A chat message arrives while you are writing a reply, and ...