Psychology news

• Major breakthrough in understanding Alzheimer's disease

  18-09-2015 21:20
  Researchers believe that periodic clearance of a specific protein across the blood brain barrier could hold tremendous potential for new therapies.
  
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• Customized exoskeleton helps veteran walk again

  18-09-2015 21:20
  Former Canadian soldier Trevor Greene, who survived a debilitating brain injury while on duty in Afghanistan in 2006, has recovered his ability to walk again with the help of a customized exoskeleton, his personal determination and support of researchers.
  
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• Do estrogen levels affect the willingness to share?

  18-09-2015 17:00
  
  Fluctuating hormone levels change a woman's social behaviour over the course of the menstrual cycle.
  
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• 'Being Sigmund Freud'... and giving oneself excellent advice: embodiment modifies thought process

  18-09-2015 17:00
  
  The volunteers participating in Sofia Adelaide Osimo's experiments may have felt as if they were inside a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, the author (and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the recent...
  
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• Repairing the brain: Two genes unlock potential for treatment of schizophrenia

  18-09-2015 16:54
  Research has linked the abnormal behavior of two genes (BDNF and DTNBP1) to the underlying cause of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disorder that affects nearly 1 percent of the total human population. These findings have provided a new target for schizophrenia treatment.
  
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• The good news and bad news about how people die

  18-09-2015 16:09
  
  There has been a profound, and positive, change since 1990 in how people die around the world, a new study shows.
  
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• A look into why the horrifying is so very intriguing

  18-09-2015 16:00
  
  It's an age-old question that's also very timely as we approach the season of haunted houses, scary movies and encounters with Halloween zombies and ghouls stopping by to beg for candy.
  
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• How the brain can stop action on a dime

  18-09-2015 14:00
  
  You're about to drive through an intersection when the light suddenly turns red. But you're able to slam on the brakes, just in time.
  
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• Physical activity, sadness, and suicidality in bullied US adolescents

  18-09-2015 13:00
  
  A study to be published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that exercise for 4 or more days per week is associated with an approximate 23%...
  
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• In a blind test, economists reject the notion of a global warming pause | John Abraham

  18-09-2015 12:00
  
  Four separate studies have now demolished the myth of a global warming ‘pause’
  Oh how resilient myths can be, even in the face of facts. This past week saw the publication of the third strong refutation of the myth that global warming had somehow stopped a decade or two ago. You would think that with 2014 the hottest year on record and 2015 almost certain to exceed that, and 2016 to potentially set yet another heat record, people would use common sense to conclude that global warming
  
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• 'I didn't get the job': Early career disappointment and wellbeing in old age

  18-09-2015 12:00
  
  Men who fail to reach their early career goals can experience a reduced sense of wellbeing much later in life.
  
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• When does an image become a health claim?

  18-09-2015 02:00
  
  Images on food and dietary supplement packaging might lead people - appropriately or inappropriately - to infer the health benefits of those products.
  
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