From the Oregon State University press release via EurekAlert!: Studies have shown that children with autism often struggle socially and now new research suggests that a corresponding lack of motor skills – including catching and…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert!: Children from low-income families tend to do worse at school than their better-off peers. Now a new study of a large ethnically and…
From the American Sociological Association press release via EurekAlert!: For the first time, a study has suggested that the position of grandparents in the British class system has a direct effect on which class their…
From the Arizona State University media release: Bacterial flora inhabiting the human gut have become one of the hottest topics in biological research. Implicated in a range of important activities including digestion, fine-tuning body weight,…
From the University of Oregon press release via EurekAlert!: An eight-week intervention involving 141 preschoolers in a Head Start program and their parents produced significant improvements in the children’s behavior and brain functions supporting attention…
From the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: A transformational leadership style—valued for stimulating innovation and worker performance—is also associated with increased well-being among employees, reports a study in the July…
From the University of Southern California press release via EurekAlert!: Of the many negative stereotypes that exist about older adults, the most common is that they are forgetful, senile and prone to so-called “senior moments.”…
From the MIT press release by Anne Trafton via HealthCanal: Our daily routines can become so ingrained that we perform them automatically, such as taking the same route to work every day. Some behaviors, such…
From the University of Helsinki press release via EurekAlert!: A research group led by professor Jesper Ekelund showed that by giving a very large dose of famotidine (200 mg daily), sufficient amounts of the drug…
From the INSERM press release via ScienceDaily: Work pressure, tension at home, financial difficulties … the list of causes of stress grows longer every day. There have been several studies in the past showing that…