From the UC San Diego press release via MedicalXpress: An international team of neuroscientists has described for the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss…
From the University of Glasgow press release via MedicalXpress: Those diagnosed with schizophrenia are less likely than the general population to have a recorded diagnosis of heart disease, a new report published in BMJ Open…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Infants who sweat less in response to scary situations at age 1 show more physical and verbal aggression at age 3, according to new research published in…
From the University of Bristol press release via MedicalXpress: Researchers have found a new method for studying depression in rats that mirrors an aspect of the mood-related symptoms of the condition in humans. Until now,…
From the Harvard Medical School press release via MedicalXpress: Scientists have long pondered the roots of aggression—and ways to temper it. Now, new research is beginning to illuminate the cellular-level circuitry responsible for modulating aggression…
From the Princeton University press release via MedicalXpress: Michael North, a fifth-year graduate student in psychology at Princeton University, knew he was lucky to land a summer research position at the University of Michigan after…
From the Indiana University press release via Physorg: Maybe rocker Greg Kihn was being prophetic in his 1981 hit, “The Breakup Song,” with its chorus, “They don’t write ’em like that anymore.” An Indiana University…
From the International Communication Association press release via EurekAlert!: From the T-101 to Data from Star Trek, humans have been presented with the fictional dilemma of how we empathize with robots. Robots now infiltrate our…
From the University College London press release via MedicalXpress: Predicting the winner of a sporting event with accuracy close to that of a statistical computer program could be possible with proper training, according to researchers.…
From the UC Berkeley press release via HealthCanal: “You always think about stress as a really bad thing, but it’s not,” said Daniela Kaufer, associate professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley.…