From the Australian National University press release: Television coverage of the shooting at a cinema in Colorado last week may traumatise children who watch it, according to a leading psychiatrist at The Australian National University.…
From the North Carolina State University press release: New research from North Carolina State University shows that informal social networks play an important role when it comes to finding jobs in both the United States…
From the CAMH press release via EurekAlert!: An ongoing survey of Ontario students in grades 7 to 12 conducted for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that while the majority of students…
From the British Medical Journal press release: Tools designed to predict an individual’s risk of repeat offending are not sufficient on their own to inform sentencing and release or discharge decisions, concludes a study published…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: The traditional approach to psychiatric diagnosis is based on grouping patients on the basis of symptom clusters. This approach to diagnosis has a number of problems, as symptoms…
From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release via EurekAlert!: Neuroscientists have found strong evidence that vivid memory and directly experiencing the real moment can trigger similar brain activation patterns. The study, led by…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Too often our memory starts acting like a particularly porous sieve: all the important fragments that should be caught and preserved somehow just disappear. So armed with…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Anxiety disorders affect approximately 40 million American adults each year, and although they are treatable, they often cause significant distress.The excessive fear and dread that accompanies anxiety disorders…
From the Wake Forest Baptist University press release via ScienceDaily: Ever wonder how the human brain, which is constantly bombarded with millions of pieces of visual information, can filter out what’s unimportant and focus on…
From the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland press release via ScienceDaily: New research conducted by neuroscientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) published in Nature Medicine has identified a new gene…