Scientists Use New Data Mining Strategy to Spot Those at High Alzheimer’s Risk
Researchers use a multilayer clustering algorithm to help identify people at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Body ownership is not impaired in schizophrenia
Answering a long-standing question, EPFL scientists have determined that the sense of body ownership is not affected in schizophrenia patients.
Dulled taste may prompt more calories on path to obesity
A new study reveals blocking taste receptors leads people to desire sweeter, higher calorie foods. Researchers believe a dulled sense of taste could increase a person’s obesity risk.
Negativity Be Gone: New Online Tool Can Retrain Brain
Anxiety and depression can have devastating effects on people’s lives. In some cases, the mental disorders lead to isolation, poverty and poor physical health, things that often cascade to future generations. A new program at the University of Virginia is aiming to...
Substance addiction changes mother’s response to infant
Substance addiction modifies they way a mother’s brain responds to her own child, a new study reports. Researchers found key reward regions of the brain appear to shut down in response to their own infant’s smiles in mothers with addictions.
Immune system may mount an attack in Parkinson’s disease
NIH-funded study suggests role for specific immune cells in brain disease.
Psychopaths are better at learning to lie, say researchers
A new study using university students reveals those with high psychopathic traits showed a significantly reduces response time when being prompted to lie following training than those low levels of the traits. Researchers say their findings provide evidence that those with higher psychopathic traits may be better at learning to lie.
Toddlers Begin Learning Rules of Reading and Writing at Very Early Age
A new study reveals that by the age of three, children are already starting to follow complex rules and patterns that govern how letters fit together to make words.
Neuroplasticity: A new paradigm for understanding and treating mental health issues
Members Download Neuroplasticity Download the PDF The dominant paradigm for understanding and treating mental health issues is the medical model. The medical model is rooted in science. Broadly speaking, it assumes and seeks to identify pathology in the brain and,...
Eating for Mental Wellbeing
Report by Binh Nguyen Members Download Eating for mental well being How often have we heard the saying that we are what we eat, with the view that the foods we eat can directly influence our state of mind and physical health? This statement may well be true for the...
How Couples Change: A psychobiological approach to couples therapy
Members Download How Couples Change Couples therapy has a long history of ineffectiveness (Gurman, 1973), possibly because early approaches attempted to retrofit cognitive, behavioral, and psychoanalytic models to a dyadic system (the couple), and possibly due to...
The Story of You
Members Download The Story of You There is so much I want to say and share about the importance of having a coherent narrative, and how one achieves that. Sometimes I think its simpler and clearer to talk about it in educational rather than psychological terms…in as...
