From the Ohio State University press release: The more afraid a person is of a spider, the bigger that individual perceives the spider to be, new research suggests. In the context of a fear of…
From the Elsevier press release via AlphaGalileo: Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are cardinal injuries associated with combat stress, and TBI increases the risk of PTSD development. The reasons for…
From the New York University press release via Newswise: Can animals’ survival instincts shed additional light on what we know about human emotion? New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux poses this question in outlining a…
From the North Carolina State University press release: For some older adults, the online video game World of Warcraft (WoW) may provide more than just an opportunity for escapist adventure. Researchers from North Carolina State…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: “Broken-hearted” isn’t just a metaphor—social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: While boys generally do better than girls in science and math, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic. A new study published in Psychological…
From the Medical University of Vienna press release via MedicalXPress: A team of researchers led by Stefan Seidel from the University Department of Neurology at the MedUni Vienna has demonstrated that – and how –…
From the UC San Francisco press release by Juliana Bunim: The ability to anticipate future events allows us to plan and exert control over our lives, but it may also contribute to stress-related increased risk…
From the PLoS press release via MedicalXPress: There are a number of drugs and experimental conditions that can block cognitive function and impair learning and memory. However, scientists have recently shown that some drugs can…
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) press release via AlphaGalileo: Pain? Just turn it off! It may sound like science fiction, but researchers based in Munich, Berkeley and Bordeaux have now succeeded in inhibiting pain-sensitive neurons…