From the University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences press release: A new study finds that severe childhood trauma and stresses early in parents’ lives are linked to higher rates of behavioral health problems…
From the EMBO press release: Cocaine can have a devastating effect on people. It directly stimulates the brain’s reward center, and, more importantly, induces long-term changes to the reward circuitry that are responsible for addictive…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: Nerve cells in the brain region planum temporale have more synapses in the left hemisphere than in the right hemisphere — which is vital for rapid processing of auditory…
From the Society for Risk Analysis press release: People who text while driving are six times more likely to be involved in a car crash. To combat this problem, more and more states are adopting…
From the University of Arizona press release: People who engage in more substantive conversations tend to be happier, a new study confirms. Researchers also found that idle small talk is not necessarily negatively related to…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: In the animal kingdom, males of certain species possess flashy ornamentation that appears to do little to enhance their survival; think of a peacock’s long, heavy tail or…
From the Institute of Science and Technology Austria press release: When what we want as individuals clashes with what is best for the group, we have a social dilemma. How can we overcome these dilemmas,…
From the University of East Anglia press release: Ex-smokers may not be able to resist lighting up again in order to recover a sense of ‘who they are’- according to new research from the University…
From the Columbia University press release: John Coltrane and Jerry Garcia became improvising legends for their ability to mix musical elements on the fly. How the brain accomplishes such feats of creativity under pressure remains…
From the Wiley press release: A new Aggressive Behavior study has examined alcohol’s “in the moment” effects on sexual aggression, or the acute effects of alcohol on men’s decisions about how to respond to sexual refusals in…