A recent UC Berkeley study found that an hourlong nap can "dramatically boost and restore your brain power" and suggests that nighttime sleep with daytime naps "not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter," according to ScienceDaily.
Even among adults, a mid-day nap was found to dramatically boost and restore brainpower.
The results raise the tantalizing possibility that boosting or restoring Nurr1 activity in failing nerve cells may delay or prevent Parkinsonian symptoms.
The finding, reported in today's issue of Science,* raises the tantalizing possibility that boosting or restoring the activity of this molecule, called Nurr1, in failing nerve cells could alleviate or prevent Parkinson's disease.
The virtuous circle promised, eventually, to tighten the jobs market, to boost wages and to restore some lustre to household spending.
The Yonkers school district is set to receive a $6.1 million boost that will help restore some programs and staff that were cut over the summer because of a $25 million budget shortfall, according to state and city officials.
"The danger today is of an incremental buildup of restrictions that could slowly strangle international trade and undercut the effectiveness of policies to boost aggregate demand and restore sustained growth globally," the report said.
Western bankers have vowed to continue lending money to Turkey, giving a vital boost to efforts to restore confidence in that nation's finances just days after the International Monetary Fund agreed to provide a multibillion-dollar emergency aid package, bankers and I.M.F. officials said today.
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John Lonski, chief economist at Moody's Investors Service, said "the Fed is willing to take extraordinary measures to boost confidence and to restore liquidity.
