From the Karolinska Institutet press release via ScienceDaily: People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according…
From the San Diego State University press release via EurekAlert!: Prenatal exposure to alcohol (PAE) can lead to serious deficiencies, including deficits in spatial working memory (SWM). This is the first study to examine the…
From the Springer press release: Parents need to be good role models to help their children make sensible financial decisions, according to Adam Hancock and his team, from East Carolina University in the US. Their…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: The whiskers of newborn rats twitch as they sleep, and that could open the door to new understandings about the intimate connections between brain and body. The…
From the Penn State press release via EurekAlert!: Men and women who are expectant parents have different stress reactions to relationship conflict, according to researchers at Penn State, who studied couples expecting their first child.…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: If only there were a way to forget that humiliating faux pas at last night’s dinner party. It turns out there’s not one, but two opposite ways…
From the Georgetown University Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: People who like to nap say it helps them focus their minds post a little shut eye. Now, a study from Georgetown University Medical Center…
From the University of Rochester press release via EurekAlert!: Cognitive scientists have good news for linguistic purists terrified about the corruption of their mother tongue. Using an artificial language in a carefully controlled laboratory experiment,…
From the Clemson University press release via ScienceDaily: Researchers are exploring how specific online communication attitudes — such as individuals’ tendency for online self-disclosure, online social connection, and online anxiety — predicted their compulsive and…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: We’ve all been warned not to “judge a book by its cover,” but inevitably we do it anyway. It’s difficult to resist the temptation of assuming that…