From the Springer press release: Two Polish researchers have shown that measurements of the brain’s electrical activity can be used to test the influence of intrusive online advertisements on internet users’ concentration and emotions. The…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: For most of us, faces provide untold amounts of information about the people in our world. We use faces to identify someone as a friend or stranger,…
From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital press release: Previous research has analyzed variations in sleep patterns including number of hours slept, quality of sleep, and sleep-wake times, and found an association with cognitive impairments, health and…
From the IOS Press press release: A new study by researchers at the University of Montana, Universidad del Valle de México, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Boise State, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, heightens concerns…
From the University of Cambridge press release: Our DNA influences our ability to read a person’s thoughts and emotions from looking at their eyes, suggests a new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Twenty years…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release: Preliminary results from a new study suggest that short-term sleep extension improves response time and daytime functioning of professional baseball players. Results show that after five nights…
From the Loyola University Health System press release: Memory loss, language problems and other symptoms of cognitive decline are strongly associated with diseases of the small blood vessels in the brain, a study has found. The…
From the University of Cambridge press release: Our DNA influences our ability to read a person’s thoughts and emotions from looking at their eyes, suggests a new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Twenty…
From the Lancaster University press release: Psychologists have discovered that people’s language changes when they lie depending on their cultural background. Professor Paul Taylor of Lancaster University in the UK said: “Science has long known…
From the Keck Medicine of USC press release: Long before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease become apparent to patients and their families, biological changes are occurring within the brain. Amyloid plaques, which are clusters of protein fragments,…