From the Cornell University press release via MedicalXpress: Here’s another reason to keep a photo of a loved one on your desk. After recalling an upsetting event, thinking about your mother or romantic partner can…
From the NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development press release via EurekAlert!: One of the basic elements of cognition – the ability to estimate quantities – grows more precise across the first 30…
From the McGill University press release: A new study shows significant differences in brain development in high-risk infants who develop autism starting as early as age 6 months. The findings published in the American Journal…
From the University of Gothenburg press release via Physorg: Over 60 per cent of Swedish young people today have a smartphone, and in addition to telephoning and messaging, they use them to communicate via social…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: Smoking, head injury, pesticide exposure, farming and less education may be risk factors for a rare sleep disorder that causes people to kick or punch…
From the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology press release via EurekAlert!: In a recent Journal of Biological Chemistry “Paper of the Week,” research led by Ayae Kinoshita at the Kyoto University Graduate School…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Social interactions during adolescence can affect health many years into adulthood, according to research published June 27 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. The…
From the Weill Cornell Medical College press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed and successfully tested in mice an innovative vaccine to treat nicotine addiction. In the journal Science Translational…
From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln press release by Steve Smith via HealthCanal: Students receiving special-education services for behavioral disorders and those with more obvious disabilities are more likely to be bullied than their general-education counterparts…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: Media violence does have an effect on children’s behaviour and a concerted public health response involving parents, professionals, the media and policymakers is needed to…