From the University of Pennsylvania press release: When a close friend shares bad news, our instinct is to help. But putting ourselves in a friend’s shoes, imagining how we would feel if we were the…
From the Binghamton University, State University of New York press release: Pupil dilation could identify which individuals are at greatest risk for depression following disaster-related stress, and help lead to targeted interventions, according to new research…
From the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics press release: Reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history that the existence of a ‘reading area’ could not be specified in our genes. A kind of…
From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those at risk for autism, and…
From the North Carolina State University press release: A recent analysis of research into how so-called “sexting” may affect sexual behavior finds that it has little impact on sexual activity — but highlights significant shortcomings…
From the Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan press release: Most people know that regular exercise can keep a body looking and feeling young. What about the brain? “There has been a wealth of evidence from…
From the Rice University press release: Educational attainment is a national priority because it creates both economic and personal gains: higher incomes, better individual and family health and deeper civic engagement. U.S. college enrollments are…
From the University of Zürich press release: If the mother is stressed over a longer period of time during pregnancy, the concentration of stress hormones in amniotic fluid rises, as proven by an interdisciplinary team of…
From the University of Waterloo press release: The closer you feel to your actual age, the less likely you are to be satisfied with your sex life, a University of Waterloo study has found. The…
From the McGill University press release: Even among non-dependent cocaine users, cues associated with consumption of the drug lead to dopamine release in an area of the brain thought to promote compulsive use, according to…