From the Wiley-Blackwell press release: Cognitive stimulation therapies have beneficial effects on memory and thinking in people with dementia, according to a systematic review by Cochrane researchers. Despite concerns that cognitive improvements may not be…
From the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris) press release via HealthCanal: Schizophrenia is a mental illness that seriously affects social interaction. Recent studies have shown that people with schizophrenia have difficulty in interpreting…
From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: A new study published by a group of Finnish investigators in the last 2011 issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics sheds some new light on…
From the Stanford University press release: What if you could teach your brain to respond differently to things that make you feel sad, down or stressed out? What if doing that helped ward off depression?…
From the Arizona State University press release: A new study provides evidence that adolescents who suffer from depression are more likely to experience difficulty in peer relationships, including being bullied at school. It’s often assumed…
From the Canadian Medical Association Journal press release: An analysis of research on physical punishment of children over the past 20 years indicates that such punishment is potentially harmful to their long-term development, states an…
From the Biomed press release via AlphaGalileo and ScienceDirect: It can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However people with aMCI are…
From the Research Council of Norway press release via AlphaGalileo: When a patient afflicted with schizophrenia hears inner voices something is taking place inside the brain that prevents the individual from perceiving real voices. A…
From the Stowers Institute for Medical Research press release: Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called “synapses”. But how do these synapses stay strong and keep memories alive for decades? Neuroscientists…
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…