From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Recalling traumatic memories enhances the rewarding effects of morphine in male rats, finds new research published in JNeurosci. These findings may help to explain the co-occurrence of post-traumatic stress…
From the University of Colorado at Boulder press release: Children raised in a rural environment, surrounded by animals and bacteria-laden dust, grow up to have more stress-resilient immune systems and might be at lower risk…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release: A collaboration between investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and Khyber Medical University in Pakistan may have discovered how chronic stress experienced early in life increases vulnerability to post-traumatic…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: People whose negative emotional responses to stress carry over to the following day are more likely to report health problems and physical limitations later in life compared…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release: Both civilians and military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reap long-term benefits from psychotherapies used for short-term treatment, according to a new study from Case Western…
From the North Carolina State University press release: A recent study finds that older adults are better than younger adults at anticipating stressful events at home — but older adults are not as good at…
From the Frontiers press release: Insights from past failures can help boost performance on a new task — and a new study is the first to explain why. US researchers report that writing critically about…
From the Rice University press release: Living abroad can clarify your sense of self, according to new research by a team of social scientists at Rice University, Columbia University and the University of North Carolina.…
From the University of Calgary press release: In a new study in Nature Neuroscience, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and his team at the Cumming School of Medicine’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), at the University of Calgary have…
From the Bar-Ilan University press release: Sweaty palms, a racing heart, a faltering voice. Many people find public speaking unpleasant. The mere anticipation of social evaluation increases the activity of almost all body systems related…