Psychology news

• Campuses cautiously train freshmen against subtle insults

  07-09-2016 21:51 via nytimes.com
  Many orientation programs now cover "microaggressions" in addition to addressing issues of diversity and sexual consent.
  
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• Don’t tell anxious kids that everything will be o.k.

  07-09-2016 21:46 via time.com
  
  Today’s kids are more worried than any kids in recent history.
  
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• Effortless studying? Creating long-lasting memories while having fun

  07-09-2016 19:54
  Imagine if playing a new video game or riding a rollercoaster could help you prepare for an exam or remember other critical information. A new study in mice shows this link may be possible.
  
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• Antidepressant bone loss could be prevented with beta-blockers

  07-09-2016 18:51
  The antidepressant fluoxetine causes bone loss by instructing the brain to send out signals that increase bone breakdown, but a beta-blocker can intercept the signals, a new study in mice has found.
  
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• Emotionally invested parents give children a leg up in life

  07-09-2016 17:33
  Children with emotionally invested parents are more likely to be successful, a study shows.
  
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• Gut bacteria and the brain: Are we controlled by microbes?

  07-09-2016 17:00
  
  How much influence do your gut bacteria have on your state of mind? Perhaps more than you think, according to research into the microbiome-gut-brain axis.
  
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• Screening for suicidal thoughts and behaviors declines with patient age

  07-09-2016 16:00
  
  In a recent analysis of patient charts from eight different emergency departments, documented screening for self-harm, suicide ideation, or suicide attempts declined with age, from approximately 81...
  
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• Drinking to belong: Students and low self-esteem

  07-09-2016 16:00
  
  It's that time of year again, when students old and new are heading to university. Certain behaviors might be expected in the coming months, drinking in particular.
  
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• Family caregivers for patients with cancer experience high levels of anxiety, depression

  07-09-2016 15:55
  A new multi-state survey shows that nearly one-quarter to one-third of family caregivers of patients with high-mortality cancers experience high levels of depression and anxiety symptoms.
  
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• The minute of truth: 8.12am could make or break your day

  07-09-2016 14:59
  
  A new survey claims that most British people know how the next 12 hours will pan out before it’s even quarter past eight, with bad weather and troublesome hair among the harbingers of doomIs today a good day or a bad one? According to a survey, most Britons know what kind of day they are in for by 8:12am.It seems an astonishing, and unlikely, finding. Surely a persistent, blinkered optimism – a fond hope that things might improve – lies behind one’s daily decision to
  
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• Using light to image and potentially to treat PTSD

  07-09-2016 03:36
  After years of studying the effects of near-infrared light on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries, a team of bioengineers has published research that could result in an effective, long-term treatment for brain disorders.
  
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• Scientists reverse alcohol dependence in animal models

  07-09-2016 03:35
  The more a person drinks, the more they reinforce activation in the neuronal "circuit," which then drives further alcohol use and addiction. It's as if the brain carves a special path between alcohol and reward. Now researchers report that there may be a way to switch off the urge for compulsive drinking, based on a new study in animal models.
  
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