From the Royal Society press release via MedicalXpress: New research published in Biology Letters today shows that humans are biased to look at eyes… even those of headless monsters! The findings from the universities of…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release via HealthCanal: A new study suggests that increasing the amount of sleep that adults get could lead to reduced food intake, but the hormonal process differs…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release via HealthCanal: You push a button to call the elevator to your floor and you wait for what seems like forever, thinking it must be broken. When…
From the Nottingham University press release via HealthCanal: Cyberbullying – using modern communications technology such as e-mails, texts or web-postings to abuse people – is as common in the workplace as ‘conventional’ bullying. Yet, the…
From the Elsevier press release via AlphaGalileo: There are a growing number of clues that immune and inflammatory mechanisms are important for the biology of schizophrenia. In a new study in Biological Psychiatry, Dr. Mar…
From the Pennsylvania State University press release via EurekAlert!: Contrary to popular perception, stressors don’t cause health problems — it’s people’s reactions to the stressors that determine whether they will suffer health consequences, according to…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release via EurekAlert!: The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by…
From the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center press release: Parents with social anxiety disorder are more likely than parents with other forms of anxiety to engage in behaviors that put their children at high risk for…
From the University of Iowa press release: Many educators have long believed that when words differ on only one sound, early readers can learn the rules of phonics by focusing on what is different between…
From the McLean Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: In a column appearing in the current issue of the journal Nature, McLean Hospital biostatistician Nicholas Lange, ScD, cautions against heralding the use of brain imaging scans…