From the Research Council of Norway press release via ScienceDaily: Ingesting the hormone oxytocin via nasal spray improves the ability to read people’s facial expressions. These findings hold great promise for treatment of mental health…
From the Ruhr-Universität Bochum press release via EurekAlert!: Cognition psychologists at the Ruhr-Universität together with colleagues from the University Hospital Bergmannsheil (Prof. Dr. Martin Tegenthoff) have discovered why stressed persons are more likely to lapse…
From the Concordia University press release via Physorg: If cramps, mood swings and ice cream binges are what come to mind when you hear the hackneyed phrase that time of the month, think again. Researchers…
From the Endocrine Society press release via EurekAlert!: A new study finds that a drop in testosterone levels over time is more likely to result from a man’s behavioral and health changes than by aging.…
From the Salk Institute press release via EurekAlert!: The hormone oxytocin – often referred to as the “trust” hormone or “love hormone” for its role in stimulating emotional responses – plays an important role in…
From the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) press release via EurekAlert!: As science rushes to develop safe weight loss drugs, a new research report approaches this problem from an entirely new angle:…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals via EurekAlert!: Normally, male California mice are surprisingly doting fathers, but new research published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology suggests that high anxiety can turn these…
From the University of Utah Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: The velvety voice of Elvis Presley still makes hearts flutter—and in a new study with people who have the rare genetic disorder Williams syndrome,…
From the University College Cork press release via AlphaGalileo: UCC scientists have shown that brain levels of serotonin, the ‘happy hormone’ are regulated by the amount of bacteria in the gut during early life. Their…
From the Indiana University press release via Newswise: An Indiana University biologist has shown that natural variation in measures of the brain’s ability to process steroid hormones predicts functional variation in aggressive behavior. The new…