Researchers from Western Sydney University, Harvard University, Kings College, Oxford University and University of Manchester have found that the Internet can produce both acute and sustained alterations in specific areas of cognition, which may reflect changes in the brain, affecting our ...
Date Posted: June 17, 2019
Categories: Addictions, Social Isolation
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Researchers have compared between 38 pregnant women, currently well with history of depression and bipolar disorder against 28 other healthy pregnant women. They also tested 18 non-pregnant women, as controls. Between the 27th and 39th weeks of ...
Jun 15
Categories: Bipolar, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Depression
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Brain regions in charge of processing rewards are involved in promoting heavy cannabis use, but not all heavy cannabis users are dependent on the drug. A recent study has suggested that regions controlling habit formation are more responsible for ...
Jun 14
Categories: Addictions, Drug Addiction
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Some antidepressants may cause older adults to experience more harmful events such as falls, hence outweighing the positive effects they may have on the mental health of these individuals. While pharmacological interventions are popular for dealing ...
Jun 14
Categories: Depression, Health / Illness / Medical Issues
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Romantic attachment styles have an impact on how a person may behave in a romantic relationship as it influences the way they think and feel. Recent studies have identified the use of pronouns as a possible way of knowing what your partner’s ...
Jun 13
Categories: Attachment Issues, Relationships & Marriage
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A three-week experiment has found that making small, simple adjustments to one’s lifestyle can help enhance emotional and cognitive functioning. As the methods used help to regulate sleeping cycles, this could be beneficial for night owls whose ...
Jun 13
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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Researchers show that people do have a 'type' when it comes to dating, and that despite best intentions to date outside that type - for example, after a bad relationship, some will still gravitate to similar type of partners. However, research by ...
Jun 12
Categories: Attachment Issues, Ending a relationship issues, Relationships & ...
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Attachment Theory, proposed in the 1950s by British psychoanalyst John Bowlby, argues for the importance of our earliest relationships with our caregivers. This theory predicts that these formative bonds will shape the nature of our connections with ...
Jun 12
Categories: Attachment Issues
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Impressions about a person based on their physical appearances are formed almost instantaneously. Often, attractive people are judged to be more trustworthy and capable. What about people with facial abnormalities? Using brain imaging technology, a ...
Jun 11
Categories: Prejudice / Discrimination
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What advice would we give to our younger selves? Even with the popularity of this thought experiment, no one has, until now, systematically studied what people would tell themselves.
Jun 10
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Health Psychology, Life ...
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The impact of gaming on children has plagued concerned parents for years, but recent studies have found that gaming is in fact not as detrimental to the social competence of children as most might belief. Norwegian researchers have analyzed the ...
Jun 7
Categories: Child Development, Social Isolation
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Sexual advances have been found to affect satisfaction in the bedroom lives of couples and their relationships. Regardless of who initiates the advance and who receives it, an individual is likely to feel greater satisfaction when sexual advances ...
Jun 6
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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While acts of self-harm are commonly interpreted as a method for individuals to manage overpowering emotions, studies have found that they could also represent one's inability to evaluate their own bodily sensations and emotions accurately. ...
Jun 6
Categories: Depression, Self-Harm
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The importance of effective note-taking to memory for and learning of course content, and examining student note-taking behavior as technologies changes.
May 7
Categories: Academic Issues
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A new finding had shown that looking at the general direction of the speaker's face without looking into the speaker's eye have the same effect as making eye contact with the speaker.
Mar 22
Categories: Social Anxiety / Phobia
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Breakthrough research has yielded a cluster of genetic markers that could form the basis of a blood test for PTSD.
Mar 18
Categories: Complex PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / ...
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