From the Leiden, Universiteit media release: Students who have a chronic lack of sleep have lower grades and find it harder to concentrate. Around a third of students do not feel well rested enough to…
From the University of Missouri-Columbia media release: Considerable attention has been paid to how boys’ educational achievements in science and math compare to girls’ accomplishments in those areas, often leading to the assumption that boys outperform…
From the Association for Psychological Science media 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 Science, a…
From the Mayo Clinic media release: Medical students are more prone to alcohol abuse than their peers not attending medical school, especially if they are young, single and under a high debt load. That’s according to…
From the eLife media release: Biology lessons teach us that the brain is divided into separate areas, each of which processes a specific sense. But findings to be published in eLife show we can supercharge it to…
From the ResearchSEA media release: Brain maps of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show different levels of connectivity between parts of the brain compared with typical individuals. Autism spectrum disorder is a group of neurological…
From the Johns Hopkins University media release: By studying stroke victims who have lost the ability to spell, researchers have pinpointed the parts of the brain that control how we write words. In the latest issue…
From the Queensland University of Technology media release: Parents who take the overparenting approach, known as helicopter parenting, are possibly hindering their child’s development by becoming too heavily involved in homework. A QUT study involving 866…
From the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main media release: In the framework of group therapy developed at Goethe University Frankfurt, children and adolescents with high functioning ASD can learn how to cope better in the social world…
From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln media release: College students spend more class time than ever playing with their smartphones and other digital devices, according to a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln study. Students check their phones and…