From the University of Missouri press release: Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer can experience cognitive declines, such as decreased verbal fluency or loss of memory and attention. Often experienced by patients undergoing chemotherapy, the…
From the UNC press release via HealthCanal: Adolescents’ expectations of an early death can predict their economic futures more than a decade later, according to a new study from the UNC Gillings School of Global…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via Newswise: Based on their clinical experience and observations, a team of Johns Hopkins physicians and psychologists say that more than one-third of the patients admitted to The…
From the University of Chicago Medicine press release: The ranking of a monkey within her social environment and the stress accompanying that status dramatically alters the expression of nearly 1,000 genes, a new scientific study…
From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute press release via EurekAlert!: In low-income, minority communities, tight-knit social connections — with family members, friends, and neighbors — can lead people to eat healthy and be physically active, but…
From the UC Berkeley press release: Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley,…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via EurekAlert!: We all have them – positive memories of personal events that are a delight to recall, and painful recollections that we would rather forget.…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists have discovered a mutation limited to brain tissue that causes hemimegalencephaly (HMG), a condition where one half of the brain is enlarged and dysfunctional, leading to…
From the UCLA press release: Why do some people experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while others who suffered the same ordeal do not? A new UCLA study may shed light on the answer. UCLA scientists have…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release: A new study from Case Western Reserve University finds mothers tend to be more critical of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder than they are of other children in…