From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: For children with dyslexia, the trouble begins even before they start reading and for reasons that don’t necessarily reflect other language skills. That’s according to a report…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release: Measuring what are known as ‘executive functions’, which reflect the cognitive ability to deal with sudden problems, may make it possible to predict how good an elite football player…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Depressed individuals with a tendency to ruminate on negative thoughts, i.e. to repeatedly think about particular negative thoughts or memories, show different patterns of brain network activation compared…
From the Wolters Kluwer press release: Yoga classes have positive psychological effects for high-school students, according to a pilot study in the April Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, the official journal of the Society…
From the Springer press release via AlphaGalileo: How do dogs behave when their ability to exert self-control is compromised? Are they more likely to approach dangerous situations or stay well away? According to a new…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers have turned up a new clue to the workings of a possible environmental factor in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs): fathers were four times…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release via AlphaGalileo: Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that the loss of memory that comes with aging is not…
From the Brown University press release: This week, as tens of millions of Americans awaited the baseball season’s first pitches, Brown University psychologist Fiery Cushman was watching more warily for the first beanballs. As someone…
From the University of Gothenburg press release via AlphaGalileo: Swedish adolescents’ desire to learn a foreign language besides English, which they start learning relatively early, has been declining for a long time. A new doctoral…
From the Cognitive Neuroscience Society press release via EurekAlert!: The brains of people with anorexia and obesity are wired differently, according to new research. Neuroscientists for the first time have found that how our brains…