From the New York University media release: A team of neuroscientists has found a key to the reduction of forgetting. Their findings, which appear in the journal Neuron, show that the better the coordination between two…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison media release: Teachers who practice “mindfulness” are better able to reduce their own levels of stress and prevent burnout, according to a new study conducted by the Center for Investigating…
From the Columbia University Medical Center media release: A team of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers, led by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, MD, has found that deficiency of a protein called RbAp48 in…
From the University College London media release: The space surrounding the body (known by scientists as ‘peripersonal space’), which has previously been thought of as having a gradual boundary, has been given physical limits by…
From the Association for Psychological Science media release: Divorce is associated with an increased risk of future depressive episodes but only for those who already have a history of depression, according to a new study…
From the Ohio State University media release: In an unexpected finding, scientists have linked the activation of a stress gene in immune-system cells to the spread of breast cancer to other parts of the body.…
From the American Heart Association media release: Smoking cigarettes may cause similar stroke risks for men and women, but women smokers may be at greater risk for a more deadly and uncommon type of stroke,…
From the University of Exeter media release: Volunteering may be good for your health, reveals a large systematic review and meta-analysis led by the University of Exeter Medical School. Volunteering can improve mental health and…
From the University of North Carolina School of Medicine media release: A new genome-wide association study (GWAS) estimates the number of different places in the human genome that are involved in schizophrenia. In particular, the…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison media release: It is natural to imagine that the sense of sight takes in the world as it is — simply passing on what the eyes collect from light reflected…