From the University of Chicago Medical Center press release: A new study out of the University of Chicago Medicine following young adult drinkers for 10 years has found that individuals who reported the highest sensitivity…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of not only what happened, but also the context, including the time and location of the…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release: Of the 5,300 children enrolled in the Ohio Behavioral Health Juvenile Justice Initiative since 2006, 21% reported that someone close to them had been murdered in the…
From the University of Basel press release: Writing, driving a screw or throwing darts are only some of the activities that demand a high level of skill. How the brain masters such exquisite movements has…
From the University of Basel press release: The Covid-19 pandemic is impacting people’s mental health. But what helps and hinders people in getting through a lockdown? A new study led by researchers at the University…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: In the early decades of televised news, Americans turned to the stern faces of newsmen like Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, and Dan Rather as trusted sources for news…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau press release: In almost all successful advertising campaigns, an appeal to emotion sparks a call-to-action that motivates viewers to become consumers. But according to research from…
From the York University press release: What feels like up may actually be some other direction depending on how our brains process our orientation, according to psychology researchers at York University’s Faculty of Health. In…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: The human perception of pain can vary greatly depending on the situation. So it is possible that the same pain stimulus feels more or less painful under different conditions.…
From the Lehigh University press release: For the first time, researchers have provided physiological evidence that a pervasive neuromodulation system — a group of neurons that regulate the functioning of more specialized neurons — strongly…