Disability Studies

Artistic Touch: Disability challenges artist to succeed

9 Feb 2012

In sports and in art, Rex Kochel has excelled because of the challenges he faced.

Green tea may reduce age related disability: Study

9 Feb 2012

The study – published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition – shows that drinking epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) green tea on a regular basis could result in elderly people being more agile and independent than their peers.

Mild cognitive impairment is associated with disability and neuropsychiatric symptoms

7 Feb 2012

( Public Library of Science ) In low- and middle-income countries, mild cognitive impairment -- an intermediate state between normal signs of cognitive aging, such as becoming increasingly forgetful, and dementia, which may or may not progress -- is consistently associated with higher disability and with neuropsychiatric symptoms but not with most socio-demographic factors, according to a large ...