From the Association for Psychological Science press release: What makes some people give blood and bake casseroles for their neighbors, while others mutter about taxes from behind closed blinds? A new paper published in Psychological…
From the UC Davis Health System press release via EurekAlert!: Two research studies, co-led by UC Davis neurologist Charles DeCarli and conducted by an international team that included more than 80 scientists at 71 institutions…
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: In the world’s largest brain study to date, a team of more than 200 scientists from 100 institutions worldwide collaborated to map the human genes that boost or…
From the SUNY Buffalo press release: It turns out that the milk of human kindness is evoked by something besides mom’s good example. Research by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers have turned up a new clue to the workings of a possible environmental factor in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs): fathers were four times…
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: There is little argument among experts that autism spectrum disorders (ASD), complex developmental disabilities that vary widely in their severity, are caused by both genetic and environmental factors.…
From the Michigan State University press release: For children with autism, being born several weeks early or several weeks late tends to increase the severity of their symptoms, according to new research out of Michigan…
From the UC San Diego press release via Newswise: The first atlas of the surface of the human brain based upon genetic information has been produced by a national team of scientists, led by researchers…
From the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine press release: Working with genetically engineered mice and the genomes of thousands of people with schizophrenia, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they now better understand how both nature…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release via EurekAlert!: In a new study, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have identified epigenetic changes – known as DNA methylation – in the blood of patients…