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TUESDAY, March 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- You regularly can't remember where you left your phone or your book. You keep missing appointments. You often lose your train of thought during conversation.Many older folks shrug off these instances as so-called "senior moments" -- but experts say this isn't typically part of normal aging.Instead, these are signs of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a stage that exists between the expected declines associated with aging and the more serious degeneration of dementia and Alzheimer's disease."Symptoms of mild cognitive impairment can look like senior moments. It can look like you're forgetting conversations, you're misplacing items, you're having a hard time keeping your train of thought. You might lose track of how to say a certain word every...

TUESDAY, March 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- They're cute and expressive, but using lots of emojis in your communications at work could lower your standing among your colleagues, a new study suggests. The researchers conducted a series of experiments with hundreds of Americans and found that employees who use pictures and emojis in emails, Zoom profiles, or even company logos on T-shirts are perceived as less powerful than those who stick to using words only. "Today, we are all accustomed to communicating with pictures, and the social networks make it both easy and fun. Our findings, however, raise a red flag: In some situations, especially in a work or business environment, this practice may be costly, because it signals low power," wrote study authors Elinor Amit and Shai Danziger,...

TUESDAY, March 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Even "safe" levels of ozone air pollution may increase adolescents' risk of depression, a new study shows.Researchers analyzed four years of mental health data from 213 adolescents, ages 9-13, in the San Francisco Bay area and compared it with air quality data for their home addresses.Those who lived in areas with relatively higher ozone levels had significant increases in symptoms of depression over time, even though the ozone levels in their neighborhoods weren't higher than state or national limits.The link between ozone pollution and depression symptoms such as chronic sadness or hopelessness, concentration problems, sleep disturbances and thoughts about suicide wasn't affected by the adolescents' sex, age, race, household income,...