From the Flinders University press release via MedicalXPress: Recognising a person’s face can be challenging at the best of times, yet the task becomes all the more onerous for those with autism. While popular theory…
From the Brookhaven Laboratory press release: Brain scans of two strains of mice imbibing significant quantities of alcohol reveal serious shrinkage in some brain regions — but only in mice lacking a particular type of…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: Researchers have found significant differences in brain development in infants as young as six months old who later develop autism, compared with babies who don’t develop…
From the Yale University School of Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: Alcohol abuse and dependence are common problems in the United States due to a number of factors, two of which may be social drinking…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: New experiments show that the experience of thinking fast makes people more likely to take risks. This discovery suggests that some of the innovations of the modern…
From the Florida State University press release via EurekAlert!: The growth of two-income families and increasing levels of job stress are two of the most significant work trends affecting American businesses and families in recent…
From the Northeastern University press release via MedicalXPress: We get wrinkles. Our hair turns gray, or we lose it altogether. Our job prospects diminish and our chances of incurring disease increase. Researchers across the globe…
From the National Science Foundation press release: An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers at University of Chicago. Psychologist Susan Levine and colleagues recently conducted a study that…
From the Inderscience press release via AlphaGalileo: Making play sets more interactive and giving children with autism greater opportunities to control and add content of their own to the game could improve cooperative play with…
From the IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute via EurekAlert!: The proficiency that a bilingual person has of both languages, the context in which he speaks them or unconscious changes in their use are the factors that…