Fight Memory Loss While Having Fun Too much stress impacts our body and mind, contributing to a number of health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease, more so as we age. Researchers have also shown that the stress hormone cortisol damages...
Dads matter: New research shows the value of fathers in both the neurobiology and behaviour of offspring News Editor: Maria Kostyanaya From Freud (Freud, 1920) and continuing thorough the Bowlby-Ainsworth attachment theory (Bretherton, 1992) to today, the mother...
Meditation may help slow down progression of Alzheimer’s disease News Editor: Maria Kostyanaya A new pilot study conducted by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center casts light on the beneficial changes in the brains of meditators. In particular, it was...
Adult Brain Function Impacted by Childhood Poverty Research is suggesting that circumstances of childhood poverty and chronic stress may lead to problems with emotional regulation as adults. The new study, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Psychological interventions halve deaths and CV events in heart disease patients Research from Athens, Greece, has shown that psychological interventions can halve deaths and cardiovascular events in heart disease patients. This research was presented earlier in...
Study suggests young African American women who binge eat are more likely to report suicide attempts Press Release: Springer, New York / Heidelberg, 22 July 2013 Is binge eating a tell-tale sign of suicidal thoughts? According to a new study of African...
Two New Theoretical Papers On Cortical Processing Psychotherapy and the Brain: The Dimensional Systems Model and Clinical Biopsychology Robert A. Moss Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital Abstract The dimensional systems model explains cortical processing on the basis of...
Threat vigilance can protect against PTSD, TAU researcher finds The onset of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is unpredictable. Because it depends on the unforeseeable occurrence of traumatic events, it is difficult to identify preventative or causative factors....
Collaboration Led by Berkeley Lab Researchers Creates High-Resolution Map of Gene Regulatory Elements in the Brain Source: Berkeley Lab Press Release. Future research into the underlying causes of neurological disorders such as autism, epilepsy and schizophrenia,...
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