by Duke University Credit: CC0 Public Domain You’re starting to tell that old story to a couple of new friends, and suddenly another person who was there says ‘no, it wasn’t like that!’ Without a video recording to settle the dispute, it’s pretty hard to know who has the real memory and who has an...
by Max Planck Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain To the left and right, the landscape drifts idly by, the track in front of you. Suddenly, a fire. The tension builds. The ride reaches its highest point. Only one thing lies ahead: the abyss. Plummeting down into the depths of the earth. These are scenes of...
by Weill Cornell Medical College Increasing levels of a potential disease factor results in additional brain cells (red) in a schizophrenia brain organoid. Credit: Dr. Michael Notaras. Multiple changes in brain cells during the first month of embryonic development may contribute to schizophrenia later in life, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine...
by Amy King, University of Plymouth Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine passing an exam, and thinking your success was down to the socks you wore or the number of biscuits you’d eaten, rather than the hours of study you’d put in. This is an issue of ‘credit assignment’, where a person or animal attributes the...
by Kimberly McGhee, Medical University of South Carolina The components of the Bio Ware kit. Photograph provided by Periscope. Credit: Zeriscope. Virtually guided prolonged exposure therapy reduced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms more effectively than prolonged exposure alone in a pilot study of 40 civilians and veterans. The study was conducted at the Medical University...
by Bev Betkowski, University of Alberta Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Grief over the death of a beloved pet needs to be more recognized and respected, new University of Alberta research suggests. A study of women 55 and older living alone revealed intense feelings of sorrow after losing a companion animal, but they were careful about who...
by American Psychological Association Credit: CC0 Public Domain Computer- and smartphone-based treatments appear to be effective in reducing symptoms of depression, and while it remains unclear whether they are as effective as face-to-face psychotherapy, they offer a promising alternative to address the growing mental health needs spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published by...
The causes of psychiatric disorders are poorly understood. Now, in work led by researchers at McGill University, there is evidence that a wide range of early onset psychiatric problems (from depression, anxiety, and addictions to dyslexia, bulimia, and ADHD) may be largely due to the combination of just three factors. The first is biological—in the...
Neuroscience News2 hours ago Summary: Chronic stress accelerates the body’s epigenetic clock, however, those that can manage the effects of stress by strengthening their emotional regulation and self-control can slow the process. Source: Yale Scientists in recent years have developed ways to measure biological age by tracking chemical changes in DNA that occur naturally as people age...
by University of Surrey Typical rhythms of sleep, activity and light exposure. (a), (d): Light (yellow trace), activity (gray trace), 6-sulphatoxymelatonin (aMT6s) acrophase (red circles) and sleep timing (horizontal gray bars). (b) and (e): Average pattern of light exposure across the 24-h day. The shaded regions from white through to dark gray indicate the fraction of...
