Category: Neuroscience

Study suggests nurturing mother may help reduce children’s susceptibility to drug addiction in adult years

From the University of Adelaide press release: An attentive, nurturing mother may be able to help her children better resist the temptations of drug use later in life, according to… Read more »

Study shows that maltreated children show same pattern of brain activity as combat soldiers

From the University College London press release: Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown…. Read more »

Study suggests moral distinction between harming someone and passively allowing harm is automatically made

From the Brown University press release: People typically say they are invoking an ethical principle when they judge acts that cause harm more harshly than willful inaction that allows that… Read more »