AND SPEAKING OF IOWA STATE, THE GROUP OF IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IS HELPING COMBINE FUNCTION WITH FASHION, THE APPAREL, MERCHANDIZING AND DESIGN PROGRAM PARTNERED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BRAIN TO CREATE OUTFITS FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES. EACH STUDENT WAS CONNECTED WITH A FAMILY WITH THEIR MODELS, MEDICAL COMFORT, AND STYLE IN MIND….
Researchers led by Aurore Perrault at Concordia University, Canada and Valeria Kebets at McGill University, Canada, have used a complex data-driven analysis to uncover relationships among multiple aspects of sleep and individual variation in health, cognition, and lifestyle. Published on October 7th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, the study reveals five sleep-biopsychosocial profiles and…
A few years ago, my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, just like his older brother and his mum before him. Slowly, his personality began to ebb away. Now, at the age of 75, his cognitive decline is accelerating: he no longer recognises his granddaughters, for instance, and he lives in a near-constant state of…