From the King’s College London press release: Brain stimulation could be used to treat cognitive deficits frequently associated with schizophrenia, according to a new study from King’s College London. There is currently a lack of effective…
From the University of Kent press release: Whether people believe they are ‘intuitive’ or not may have no bearing on how they perform in tasks that require intuition, according to new research by psychologists at the…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Data from a longitudinal study of over 500,000 people in the United Kingdom indicate that having higher levels of the personality trait neuroticism may reduce the risk of…
From the Oxford University Press USA press release: Delirium is common in elderly hospitalized patients, affecting an estimated 14 — 56% of patients. It frequently manifests as a sudden change in behavior, with patients suffering acute…
From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: UCLA researchers have discovered that children with autism have a tell-tale difference on brain tests compared with other children. Specifically, the researchers found that the lower…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Pain sensitivity associated with alcohol withdrawal may activate the same brain region in both drinking and non-drinking mice, finds a study published in eNeuro. Monique Smith and colleagues previously…
From the NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute press release: How well cancer patients fared after chemotherapy was affected by their social interaction with other patients during treatment, according to a new study by researchers at the…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: Columbia scientists have identified the brain’s ‘aha!’ moment — that flash in time when you suddenly become aware of information, such as knowing the answer to…
From the King’s College London press release: New King’s College London research suggests that people with a family history of bipolar disorder may ‘age’ more rapidly than those without a history of the disease. The study,…
From the Harvard Medical School press release: By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have identified striking…