From the University of Zürich press release via ScienceDaily: The diagnosis and treatment of cancer does not only trigger posttraumatic stress disorder in adults and older children; infants and toddlers with cancer also suffer from…
From the Concordia University press release via EurekAlert!: Can a computer “read” an online blog and understand it? Several Concordia computer scientists are helping to get closer to that goal. Leila Kosseim, associate professor in…
From the Max Planck Gesellschaft press release via MedicalXpress: Have you ever noticed how tiresome it can be to follow a conversation at a noisy party? Rest assured: this is not necessarily due to bad…
From the Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (DZNE) press release via EurekAlert!: Every activity in the brain involves the transfer of signals between neurons. Frequently, as many as one thousand signals rain…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: The fourth-quarter comeback to win the game. The tumor that appeared on a second scan. The guy in accounting who was secretly embezzling company funds. The situation…
From the University of Toronto press release: Men who experienced childhood sexual abuse are three times more likely to have a heart attack than men who were not sexually abused as children, according to a…
From the SUNY Buffalo press release: We hear all the time that we need to get off the couch, stop watching TV and get moving. But what if watching TV under specific conditions could actually…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: Just because children use ‘text speak’ doesn’t mean they have a bad grasp of grammar. This is one of the findings of a team of…
From the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. press release via EurekAlert!: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 88 children in the U.S. has autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a broad group…
From the UC Irvine press release: Repeated exposure to violent images from the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the Iraq War led to an increase in physical and psychological ailments in a nationally representative…