From the University of Oregon press release: For students in preschool, speaking two languages may be better than one, especially for developing inhibitory control — the ability to stop a hasty reflexive response and instead…
From the Elsevier press release: A new study in Biological Psychiatry has linked signs of heightened arousal and reactivity — a core symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — to overactivity of the locus coeruleus (LC), a…
From the University of Miami press release: What makes some people better able to resist temptation than others? Lucina Uddin and Jason Nomi, cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: People attribute more humanlike qualities to those expressing opinions they disagree with when the opinions are spoken as opposed to written, according to new research in Psychological Science,…
From the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health press release: The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during…
From the Frontiers press release: New research confirms that employees with empowering leaders are more proactive and, for the first time, shows that this effect occurs by increasing “role breadth self-efficacy” — defined as the…
From the Lund University press release: Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have for the first time convincingly shown where in the brain the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s occur. The discovery could potentially become significant to…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Using a molecular method likely to become widely adopted by the field, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have discovered brain circuitry essential for alertness,…
From the Brown University press release: Just six months into the world, babies already have the capacity to learn, remember and use contextual cues in a scene to guide their search for objects of interest,…
From the Medical University of South Carolina press release: It’s been 55 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn successfully launched into space to complete three orbits aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft, becoming the first…