Have a sense of purpose in life? It may protect your heart
From the Mount Sinai school of Medicine media release: Having a high sense of purpose in life may lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a new study led by researchers at…
The brain treats real and imaginary objects in the same way
From the Goethe University Frankfurt media release: The human brain can select relevant objects from a flood of information and edit out what is irrelevant. It also knows which parts belong to a whole. If,…
Improving health through smarter cities: Debut of a major new global science collaboration
From the United Nations University media release: Aiming to empower planners and policy-makers to achieve better health for billions of people living in fast-growing urban areas, world health, environmental, behavioural and social science experts today…
Poll finds US public sees ill health as resulting from a broad range of causes
From the Harvard School of Public Hhealth media release: A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll finds that more than six in ten people living in the U.S. (62%)…
Human brains age less than previously thought
From the Biotechnology and biological sciences research council media release: Older brains may be more similar to younger brains than previously thought. In a new paper published in Human Brain Mapping, BBSRC-funded researchers at the…
Psychology of food choice: Challenging the status quo
From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology media release: Researchers are challenging conventional beliefs about the effectiveness of traditional strategies for encouraging healthy eating. The symposium, “Challenging Misconceptions About the Psychology of Food Choice,”…
Image-guided treatment shown to break the migraine cycle
From the Society of Interventional Radiology media release: An innovative interventional radiology treatment has been found to offer chronic migraine sufferers sustained relief of their headaches, according to research being presented at the Society of…
Many memories, many rooms
From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology media release: Researchers have long wondered if there is an upper limit to our capacity to store memories and how we manage to remember so many events…
Cyberbullying linked to 6-fold increase in depression among female college students
From the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. media release: More than 1 in 4 females have experienced cyberbullying in college, increasing their risk for depression. Female college students who acted as cyberbullies were also more likely…
Successful cognitive behavioral therapy in youth equals decreased thinking about suicide
From the University of pennsylvania school of medicine media release: Penn Medicine researchers found that patients who did not respond to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety in childhood had more chronic and enduring patterns…