From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Traumatic stress can cause aggression by strengthening two brain pathways involved in emotion, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. Targeting those pathways via… Read more »
From the University College London press release: People taken ill by coronavirus infections may experience psychiatric problems while hospitalised and potentially after they recover, suggests an analysis of past research… Read more »
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: A woman walking down the street hears a bang. Several moments later she discovers her boyfriend, who had been walking ahead… Read more »
From the University of Queensland press release: Fear is an important survival mechanism and so too is the ability to inhibit fear when it’s no longer needed. In order to… Read more »
From the University of California – Riverside press release: How does the brain form “fear memory” that links a traumatic event to a particular situation? A pair of researchers at… Read more »
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: In a new study, researchers report they can manipulate how the brain encodes and retains emotional memories. The scientists found that… Read more »
From the King’s College London press release: New research from King’s College London and The Open University could help explain why memory in old age is much less flexible than… Read more »
From the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia press release: Scientists have discovered that a receptor on the surface of brain cells plays a key role in regulating how both animals and… Read more »
From the University of Southern California press release: A new study shows that compared to younger adults, older adults are less distracted by negative information — even in the earliest… Read more »
From the Boston University press release: What if scientists could manipulate your brain so that a traumatic memory lost its emotional power over your psyche? Steve Ramirez, a Boston University… Read more »
