Study looks at neurological roots of conflict
From the MIT press release: MIT postdoc Emile Bruneau has long been drawn to conflict — not as a participant, but an observer. In 1994, while doing volunteer work in South Africa, he witnessed firsthand…
Study identifies protein that could be key target in controlling Alzheimer’s
From the Temple University press release: A protein recently discovered in the brain could play a key role in regulating the creation of amyloid beta, the major component of plaques implicated in the development of…
Study suggests negative social interactions may affect health through inflammation
From the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) press release: Negative social interactions might adversely affect health through inflammation, a study suggests. To test the potential link between health and social relationships, Shelley…
Study suggests associative learning leads to changes in brain’s internal connectivity
From the Max Planck Institute press release: The brain is a fantastically complex and mysterious device, too large and with too many internal connections to be entirely programmable genetically. Its internal connectivity must therefore self-organize,…
Study assesses people’s ability to forecast their own emotions
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: How will you feel if you fail that test? Awful, really awful, you say. Then you fail the test and, yes, you feel bad—but not as bad…
Study suggests possible new avenue to reduce bullying
From the SAGE Publications press release: If you want to change how teenagers view bullying, go to the straight to the source of most school trends: the most connected crowd. According to new intervention research,…
Study suggests children with autism spectrum disorders tend to be preoccupied with screen-based technology
From the University of Missouri press release: Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to be fascinated by screen-based technology. A new study by a University of Missouri researcher found that adolescents with autism spend…
Study suggests an unstable family can adversely affect teens in rigorous high schools
From the American Sociological Association press release via EurekAlert!: Research continues to support a connection between instability in the home and school performance in adolescents, but a new study in the January issue of Sociology…
Study examines the development of prejudice and ways to prevent it
From the Jena University press release via AlphaGalileo: Girls are not as good at playing football as boys, and they do not have a clue about cars. Instead they know better how to dance and…
Studies of schizophrenia beginning to look at nose tissue cells
From the Elsevier press release: A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be studied directly. Recent advances in…