From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Researchers have found that eating disorder behaviors, such as binge-eating, alter the brain’s reward response process and food intake control circuitry, which can reinforce these behaviors.…
From the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology press release: Directing a meeting, dialing up an old acquaintance, dictating the perfect tuna salad sandwich across a drive-through window. For business and for pleasure, human…
From the University of Cambridge press release: Researchers have discovered a specific brain region underlying ‘goal-directed behaviour’ — that is, when we consciously do something with a particular goal in mind, for example going to…
From the University of Warwick press release: The link between the different hierarchies of personality, sleep patterns and even genetics has been discovered by researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick.…
From the University of South Australia press release: A year-long Australian population study has found that full time workers employed by organisations that fail to prioritise their employees’ mental health have a threefold increased risk…
From the University of Central Florida press release: Rude behavior at work has come to be expected, like donuts in the breakroom. Two decades of research on employee relationships shows that 98 percent of employees…
From the West Virginia University press release: Joining a club that sparks a new interest, playing a new intramural sport or finding a new group of friends may be just as indicative of a college…
From the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia press release: A new study from researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center found that 18- to 24-year-olds who use…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: In cultures that place a high value on conventional gender norms, particularly those that prize men as the breadwinners in a family, their unemployment plays an outsized role…
From the Washington University School of Medicine press release: The term “doomscrolling” describes the act of endlessly scrolling through bad news on social media and reading every worrisome tidbit that pops up, a habit that…