From the Brown University press release via ScienceDaily: Abstinence from smoking seems to affect teens differently than adults in a couple of ways, but a new study provides evidence that most of the psychological difficulties…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Sex can be messy, but most people don’t seem to mind too much, and new results reported Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS…
From the RCN Publishing Company press release via AlphaGalileo: The process of grieving can be compared to the workings of a pinball machine, where mourners’ movement between different stages of grief such as shock and…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release by Chris Barncard via ScienceDaily: Stress has long been pegged as the enemy of attention, disrupting focus and doing substantial damage to working memory — the short-term juggling…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release: Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have found new links between a protein that controls our urge to eat and brain cells involved in the development of alcoholism.…
From the Boston Children’s Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: A growing body of research shows that children who suffer severe neglect and social isolation have cognitive and social impairments as adults. A study from Boston…
From the IOS Press BV press release via AlphaGalileo: Forgetfulness, lack of orientation, cognitive decline… about 700, 000 Germans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Now researchers from the University of Ulm, among them the Epidemiologist…
From the University of Maryland press release: Moderate exercise may help people cope with anxiety and stress for an extended period of time post-workout, according to a study by kinesiology researchers in the University of…
From the Northumbria University press release via ScienceDaily: Non-smokers who live with or spend time with smokers are damaging their memory, according to new research from Northumbria University. The findings, published in the latest online…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release via EurekAlert!: New research examining auditory mechanisms of language learning in babies has revealed that infants as young as three months of age are able to automatically detect and learn…