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Neuroscience and Psychotherapy Research

Fight Memory Loss While Having Fun

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

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...

Adult Brain Function Impacted by Childhood Poverty

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 coronary deaths

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...

Teen eating disorders increase suicide risk

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...

Psychotherapy and the Brain

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...

Atlas of Gene-Enhancers in the Telencephalon

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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