From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women’s sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association…
From the University of Michigan press release via EurekAlert!: Resiliency is a measure of a person’s ability to flexibly adapt their behaviors to fit the surroundings in which they find themselves. Low resiliency during childhood…
From the University of Washington press release via EurekAlert!: Prenatal exposure to alcohol often results in disruption to the brain’s cognitive and behavioral domains, which include executive function (EF) and adaptive functioning. A study of…
From the Washington University School of Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: Although various kinds of substance use are associated with reduced educational attainment, these associations have been mixed and may also be partially due to…
From the University of Gothenburg press release via AlphaGalileo: Short but intense training sessions in the form of structured language games from the age of four can stimulate children’s early language development and may also…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: Child abuse or neglect are strong predictors of major health and emotional problems, but little is known about how the chronicity of the maltreatment may increase…
From the Indiana University School of Medicine press release: An Indiana University-led research team, along with a group of national and international collaborators, has identified and prioritized a comprehensive group of genes most associated with…
From the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin press release via AlphaGalileo: Several weeks after mild brain ischemia, mice display a depressive-like syndrome characterized by increased anxiety, inactivity and “cheerlessness”. These symptoms of depression following a stroke…
From the University of Leeds press release: Researchers at the University of Leeds have found a previously unknown mechanism through which pain is signalled by nerve cells. A discovery that could explain the current failings…
From the University of Chicago Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: A novel mechanism for anxiety behaviors, including a previously unrecognized inhibitory brain signal, may inspire new strategies for treating psychiatric disorders, University of Chicago…