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Study looks at psychological effect of pushing and shoving

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From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: The results of the interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have been published in the journal PLoS One. Physicists and engineers typically use purely physical models… 

Well-being in later life: The mind plays an important role

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From the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health press release: “Aging itself is not inevitably associated with a decline in mood and quality of life,” says Prof. Karl-Heinz Ladwig, summarizing the results.… 

Study identifies gene that could play key role in depression

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From the University of Maryland School of Medicine press release: Globally, depression affects more than 300 million people annually. Nearly 800,000 die from suicide every year — it is the second-leading cause of death among people… 

How plants grow like human brains

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From the Salk Institute press release: Plants and brains are more alike than you might think: Salk scientists discovered that the mathematical rules governing how plants grow are similar to how brain cells sprout connections.… 

Learning with music can change brain structure

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From the University of Edinburgh press release: Using musical cues to learn a physical task significantly develops an important part of the brain, according to a new study. People who practiced a basic movement task to…