Psychology news

• Protecting the brain from Parkinson's disease

  02-12-2015 20:27
  Researchers help the brain make GM1 ganglioside, a protective substance that is diminished in the brains of Parkinson's patients.
  
  Read more

• Physical activity and aerobic exercise helps keep brain healthy

  02-12-2015 19:25
  Regardless of gender, young adults who have greater aerobic fitness also have greater volume of their entorhinal cortex, an area of the brain responsible for memory. Better aerobic fitness however does not appear to impact hippocampal volume, another area in the brain responsible for memory.
  
  Read more

• Watching TV might slow your brain

  02-12-2015 18:00
  
  The latest study to investigate long-term effects of television watching on cognitive functioning might have you reaching for power button on the remote.
  
  Read more

• Contact sports played by amateurs increase risk of degenerative disorder, evidence suggests

  02-12-2015 15:54
  Scientists have recently found evidence that professional football players are susceptible to a progressive degenerative disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repetitive brain trauma. Now, researchers have discovered a significant and surprising amount of CTE in males who had participated in amateur contact sports in their youth.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Link found between early-stage brain and heart disease

  02-12-2015 14:42
  A connection between very early stages of brain and heart disease has been identified by researchers in the Netherlands studying thousands of healthy adults.
  
  Read more

• How does your garden grow? For cancer patients, small gardens could bring big benefits

  02-12-2015 12:00
  
  Women with breast cancer tend indoor 'garden bowls' in an experimental therapy'.
  
  Read more

• Cognitive-behavioral stress management in breast cancer

  02-12-2015 12:00
  
  Stress management techniques shown to improve long-term survival and lengthen time to recurrence in women diagnosed with breast cancer.
  
  Read more

• Survey finds 90 percent overlook key to weight loss

  02-12-2015 11:00
  
  Expert says diets fail because people don't address the emotional aspects of food.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Being a woman, a man or otherwise is more than just a difference in genitalia

  02-12-2015 09:00
  
  Recently published research raises the intriguing possibility that as far as our brains are concerned, we may all be bi-gendered to varying degreesIn an arguably transphobic tirade, Germaine Greer recently decreed that “Just because you lop off your penis and then wear a dress doesn’t make you a ******* woman”. The resultant backlash included attempts to prevent her lecture at Cardiff University and Elton John muscling in to the debate, accusing her of “living in another
  
  Read more

• New mechanism in nicotine addiction revealed

  02-12-2015 00:04
  Two chemical signals, acetylcholine and glutamate, were known to act as part of the negative reward system that fuels craving, but it wasn't clear how this happened. In new experiments, researchers have learned that one of these neurotransmitters, acetylcholine, regulates the other, glutamate, to reinforce nicotine dependence.
  
  Read more

• Exploring new paths for the treatment of multiple sclerosis

  02-12-2015 00:04
  Research is trailblazing a potential new pathway for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. The research examines a novel therapeutic strategy to reduce inflammation in the brain -- a key contributing factor to the muscle disability associated with multiple sclerosis.
  
  Read more

Follow @PsychologyUKnws on Twitter!