From the UCLA Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: Attention, college students cramming between midterms and finals: Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid. A new UCLA…
From the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute press release: Scientists at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) have discovered that mice that lack a gene called Snf2l have brains that…
From the Asociación RUVID press release via AlphaGalileo: Improving teamwork, the social support between workmates and co-ordination all improve the performance of the workforce in any company or institution, proving itself to be an efficient…
From the Cornell University press releasse via EurekAlert!: Genetic factors explain some of the variation in a wide range of people’s political attitudes and economic decisions – such as preferences toward environmental policy and financial…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women’s sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association…
From the University of Michigan press release via EurekAlert!: Resiliency is a measure of a person’s ability to flexibly adapt their behaviors to fit the surroundings in which they find themselves. Low resiliency during childhood…
From the University of Washington press release via EurekAlert!: Prenatal exposure to alcohol often results in disruption to the brain’s cognitive and behavioral domains, which include executive function (EF) and adaptive functioning. A study of…
From the Washington University School of Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: Although various kinds of substance use are associated with reduced educational attainment, these associations have been mixed and may also be partially due to…
From the University of Gothenburg press release via AlphaGalileo: Short but intense training sessions in the form of structured language games from the age of four can stimulate children’s early language development and may also…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: Child abuse or neglect are strong predictors of major health and emotional problems, but little is known about how the chronicity of the maltreatment may increase…