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Depressed Fathers Pass Depression to Offspring but the Cause is Mostly Behavioral, Not Genetic, or Epigenetic, Study Says

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From the University of Buffalo press release: One of the first studies to examine, in animals, how depression in fathers may impact their offspring will be presented by the study’s… Read more »

Mental Illness: Early-Life Depression and Anxiety Changes Structure of Developing Brain

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From the Society for Neuroscience press release: New research identifies the brain chemicals and circuits involved in mental illnesses like schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety, giving potential new directions to their… Read more »

Research Suggests Sleep Does Not Benefit Learning in Older Adults as it Does for Young People

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From the University of Massachussetts Amherst press release: Neuroscientists have long known that memory, sleep quality and sleep duration deteriorate with age, yet sleep enhances two major types of learning… Read more »

Punishment of egoistic behaviour is not rewarded

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From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön and the University of Cologne have discovered that people select future social partners on… Read more »

Which Way You Lean—Physically—Affects Your Decision-Making

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From the Association of Psychological Science press release: We’re not always aware of how we are making a decision. Unconscious feelings or perceptions may influence us. Another important source of… Read more »