From the Emory University press release via EurekAlert!: A new study shows that a therapeutic intervention called Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) appears to improve the mental and physical health of adolescents in foster care. CBCT…
From the University of British Columbia press release: Severe influenza doubles the odds that a person will develop Parkinson’s disease later in life, according to University of British Columbia researchers. However, the opposite is true…
From the Loyola University Health System press release via EurekAlert!: Caregivers of stroke survivors are at risk for developing depression and complications from chronic stress, according to a study published by researchers at the Loyola…
From the Rutgers University press release: Poor mothers are more likely to be classified as having the mental illness known as generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) because they live in poverty – not because they are…
From the Monash University press release via ScienceDaily: New treatments to lessen the severity of the more than 21,000 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) cases that occur in Australia each year are on the horizon. Published…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Synapses are modified through learning. Up until now, scientists believed that a particular form of synaptic plasticity in the brain’s hippocampus was responsible for learning spatial relations. This was based…
From the ecancermedicalscience press release via AlphaGalileo: The Welsh cancer charity Tenovus and Cardiff University, both based in the UK, have reported that participation in a choir improves a number of quality of life factors…
From the Emory University press release by Carol Clark: The first major study on the biological effects of omega-3 fatty acids on the human brain is focusing on the role that this natural substance, primarily…
From the Baylor University press release via ScienceDaily: People are more likely to show forgiving behavior if they receive restitution, but they are more prone to report they have forgiven if they get an apology,…
From the Monash University press release: When learning to master complex movements such as those required in surgery, is being physically guided by an expert more effective than learning through trial and error? New research…