In 1991, CMU psychology professor Sheldon Cohen published a landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing how stress can compromise our immune system and leave us more vulnerable to the common cold. Committed to finding practical ways of reducing both stress and illness, Cohen's ...
Date Posted: February 11, 2015
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Mice genetically deficient in serotonin -- a crucial brain chemical implicated in clinical depression -- are more vulnerable than their normal littermates to social stressors, according to a Duke study appearing this week in the Proceedings of the ...
Feb 11
Categories: Social Anxiety / Phobia
GONetflix and other streaming media services have become the crack of television, making it possible to watch an entire season ...
Feb 10
Categories: Addictions, Depression
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'Green' offices with plants make staff happier and more productive than 'lean' designs stripped of greenery, new research shows.
Feb 10
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Boost language learning with this tip.
Feb 9
Categories: Learning Difficulties
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Did you know that depression presents differently in children than it does in adults?
Feb 9
Categories: Depression
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Here are two trainable personal qualities which predict success four times more than intelligence.
Being open to experience and conscientious is four times more important than intelligence in predicting academic success, a new research review finds.
Feb 7
Categories: Career Development and Change
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People prone to feeling guilty are amongst the hardest workers, a new study finds.
Not only that but people prone to feeling guilty are also highly ethical and are less likely to take advantage of other people’s skills to get paid more.
Feb 7
Categories: Career Development and Change
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"Our conscious thoughts seem protected from our surroundings, but we found that they are much more tightly linked to the external environment than we might realize, and that we have less control of what we will think of next," said Ezequiel ...
Feb 7
Categories: Other
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A compound found in common foods such as red grapes and peanuts may help prevent age-related decline in memory, according to new research published by a faculty member in the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Feb 6
Categories: Learning Difficulties
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Have you heard of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment? It has premiered this week at Sundance to mostly positive reviews.
In 1971, Dr. Philip Zimbardo recruited 24 male undergraduates to participate in a psychological experiment where they would ...
Feb 6
Categories: Aggression & Violence
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Improvement in brain function associated with moderate physical activity has been noticed in both growing children and older adults. The cognitive benefits of physical exercise also last for decades. Parents and teachers can take cue from these ...
Feb 5
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SINGAPORE - About 57 per cent of children from lower Primary lack enough sleep, according to a survey conducted by students from Nanyang Technological University.
Feb 5
Categories: Child Development, Mental Health in Asia
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A meta-analysis of 193 brain-imaging studies shows similar gray-matter loss in the brains of people with diagnoses as different as schizophrenia, depression and addiction.
Feb 5
Categories: Addictions, Depression, Schizophrenia
GOCat people and dog people really do have different personality traits, new research suggests.
Feb 4
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"They(people) choose to forgo opportunities to document experiences in the present," Zhang writes, "only to find themselves wanting to retrieve those records in the future."
Feb 4
Categories: Happiness
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