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 relationship between the time spent playing video ...
Date Posted: June 7, 2019
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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A new large-scale Danish study searches for connections between autism and the MMR vaccine. In particular, they investigate at-risk individuals. Once again, no links are found.
Mar 11
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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New research from Aarhus University in Denmark suggests that people who have grown up in close contact with nature are much less likely to develop mental health problems in adulthood than peers who had less access to green space as children.
Mar 6
Categories: Anxiety, Depression
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Parents usually make sacrifices to allow their children to have better lives than they did, however this is different from Kalahri meerkat mothers, according to a new study.
Feb 28
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues
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The notion that social media has a negative impact on mental well-being is widespread. The researchers who conducted a new long-term study, however, say that this might not be the case.
Feb 27
Categories: Depression
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Working with a cohort of young people with symptoms of PTSD and depression, researchers found that practicing transcendental meditation can help reduce or even reverse these symptoms.
Feb 25
Categories: Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex ...
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A new paper in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice argues that the relationship a person has with their eating disorder is shaped by that person's understanding of what meaningful relationships should look like - and, in ...
Feb 20
Categories: Eating Disorders
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Memory loss does not only occur in neurodegenerative diseases, such as dementia. It also happens with age, or in relation to mental health problems, such as depression. Now, researchers have developed new compounds that could reverse this cognitive ...
Feb 18
Categories: Depression
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Exercise produce a hormone called irisin, which experts believe that irisin may improve memory and protect neurons against Alzheimer's disease.
Feb 15
Categories: Health Psychology
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Mood disorders and alcohol use disorder are both challenging to treat. A recent study concludes that a pathway involved in both conditions could be positively influenced by a commercially available chemical.
Feb 13
Categories: Addictions, Depression, Mood Swings / Bipolar
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A recent study on anxiety examined the role of glutamate, which is a neurotransmitter. The findings could help scientists develop more effective interventions.
Feb 11
Categories: Anxiety
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