With the help of a rat casino, University of British Columbia brain researchers have successfully reduced behaviours in rats that are commonly associated with compulsive gambling in humans. The study, which featured the first successful modeling of slot machine-style gambling with rats in North ...
Date Posted: October 31, 2013
Categories: Addictions, Gambling Addiction
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A squad of elite fear specialists will descend into the slightly musty basement of a Victorian house Friday night to take up haunting positions. Their preferred instrument of terror? Insights from the science of emotion.
The monsters and ghouls in ...
Oct 31
Categories: Fear
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People tend to be rated as more attractive when they're part of a group than when they're alone, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
This phenomenon — first dubbed the ...
Oct 30
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Usually, women can tell when someone’s eyes aren’t on her face and are, well, focused elsewhere on her body. In other words, there’s a reason the saying on the t-shirt is My Eyes Are Up Here.
But how, exactly, does that “objectifying ...
Oct 30
GOSchizoaffective disorder is a mental disorder characterized by disordered thought processes (called psychosis) and abnormal emotional ...
Oct 29
Categories: Bipolar, Schizophrenia
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Today it seems that almost everyone is certifiably mad. According to critics, amateur and professional psychiatrists are routinely guilty of "diagnostic inflation": turning normal people into mental patients with alphabet soup diagnoses. In a new ...
Oct 29
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Growing up in poverty can have long-lasting, negative consequences for a child. But for poor children raised by parents who lack nurturing skills, the effects may be particularly worrisome, according to a new study at Washington University School of ...
Oct 29
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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An easy, low cost, natural practice can help us boost our brain power, be healthier and more spiritually attuned as we age, and improve our quality of life and happiness. It could also reduce some of the staggering health care ...
Oct 28
Categories: Mindfulness Meditation
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The importance of funding comprehensive youth mental health services is self-evident. Experts consistently tell us that all adult mental health problems first appear in adolescence. Like many of those experts, headspace - Australia's National Youth ...
Oct 28
GOA hypochondriac can turn indigestion into a heart attack faster than you can say myocardial infarction. And thanks to the internet’s unlimited supply of medical information, there’s an online version of the condition—call it ...
Oct 28
Categories: Anxiety
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Sifting through a massive study of low-income children and their families, Lynch School of Education Professor Rebekah Levine Coley and colleagues have gleaned new insights into the harmful effects of substandard housing on families and ...
Oct 26
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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ARE dreams really meaningful?
Virtually every culture throughout history has developed methods to interpret dreams — most notably, in the modern era, the psychoanalytic approach. But today many people assume that this quest has failed. Science, ...
Oct 26
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One of the most enduring pursuits in cognitive science is identifying the factors that separate us from lower animals — and while it might at first seem like a trivial matter (“well, we’re just a lot smarter!”), it is actually very difficult ...
Oct 26
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Even for people who don’t have diabetes or high blood sugar, those with higher blood sugar levels are more likely to have memory problems, according to a new study published in the October 23, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal ...
Oct 25
GOTwo in every five children born in Hong Kong to mainland parents may grow up maladjusted if they are made to cross the border daily for classes or live away from their parents, a research specialist in youth development has warned. The risk of ...
Oct 25
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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