You're on a stage, lights hot and glaring, watching the large audience you’ll soon be addressing file in. How is your body reacting? You’re most likely jittery, your heart pounding through your rib cage and your breath quickening. Your legs may very well be able to run a marathon at this moment. And—oh great—your mouth just became super ...
Date Posted: April 23, 2013
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Parents know that crying babies usually calm down when they are picked up and carried, but why is that? In a study published today, researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute show that human babies and mouse pups alike automatically and ...
Apr 22
Categories: Parenting
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Matter magazine has an amazing article about the world of underground surgery for healthy people who feel that their limb is not part of their body and needs to be removed.
The condition is diagnosed as body integrity identity disorder or BIID ...
Apr 22
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Watch this video by the Univresity of Rochester on why not all stress is bad
Apr 22
Categories: Anxiety, Stress Management
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Young people seeking help who are at high risk of developing psychosis could significantly reduce their chances of going on to develop a full-blown psychotic illness by getting early access to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), new research shows.
Apr 20
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
GOSuccessful leaders often seem to have sharper minds than the rest of us—isn't that how they got to the top in the first place? While we often assume that people become powerful because of their superior thinking skills, research shows that the ...
Apr 20
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The graphic nature of the attack at the Boston Marathon can be difficult for many to process, and that includes young people.
Whether or not they were physically there at the bombing, children can be profoundly affected by what they hear and see. ...
Apr 19
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A new study with college roommates shows that a particular style of thinking that makes people vulnerable to depression can actually “rub off” on others, increasing their symptoms of depression six months later.
Studies show that people who ...
Apr 19
Categories: Depression
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Young children's instinct for group membership can be exploited to boost their learning performance. That's according to a new study that recalls classic social psychology research conducted in the 1970s. Back then Henri Tajfel showed a darker side ...
Apr 19
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Intellectual functioning has a significant relationship to the child’s confidence in his or her abilities. Both intellect and self confidence interact with, and to a great extent, originate from personal experience. It is through experience with ...
Apr 18
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Children and teens with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) use screen-based media, such as television and video games, more often than their typically developing peers and are more likely to develop problematic video game habits, a University of ...
Apr 18
Categories: Addictions, Autism spectrum disorders
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When it comes to pinpointing the source of our woes, we tend not to think too much about the little hassles of everyday life; after all they're just little hassles, nothing compared to the big stuff.
You're late for a meeting, you run out of ...
Apr 18
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University of British Columbia researchers have found a new potential use for the over-the-counter pain drug Tylenol. Typically known to relieve physical pain, the study suggests the drug may also reduce the psychological effects of fear and anxiety ...
Apr 17
Categories: Anxiety
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Will the masses at NFL events do “the wave” only in the watchful sights of a sharpshooter’s high-powered rifle? Is tailgating before the game all but nostalgic history? Will major marathons be relegated to a dull repetition of 105 or so loops ...
Apr 17
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Making decisions involves a gradual accumulation of facts that support one choice or another. A person choosing a college might weigh factors such as course selection, institutional reputation and the quality of future job prospects.
But if the ...
Apr 17
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