Psychology & Psychiatry
Does music improve overall health and well-being?
What's your favorite genre of music? Do you prefer Bach over Metallica? Or perhaps David Bowie is more your jam than Ed Sheeran?
Apr 13, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Switching off' specific brain cells protects against stress
It is well known that long-term exposure to stress can lead to serious psychiatric problems. However, the precise mechanisms underpinning the stress response have remained elusive. Recent advances in microscopic imaging by ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How our environment affects what we remember
It is a common experience that, when you share memories with a friend, you can recount some events in much more detail than others, while other times, you mix up memories. But why do our memories change? It is all about the ...
Mar 10, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Music combined with auditory beat stimulation may reduce anxiety for some
Treatments integrating music and auditory beat stimulation are effective in reducing state anxiety in some patients, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Adiel Mallik and Frank ...
Mar 9, 2022
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Health
Politics still make people sick
Scrolling social media, reading websites, listening to podcasts, watching news. With so many options, it's never been easier to follow American politics, but at what cost?
Jan 14, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
College students in declining mental, physical health one year into COVID-19, study shows
Following research about college students from before COVID-19 with a survey at the pandemic's Year I mark, an international team of scientists detected no improvement in the students' mental well-being even after the introduction ...
Dec 2, 2021
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Neuroscience
How grandmothers' brains react to the sight of their grandchildren
Many people lucky enough to have grown up with doting grandmothers know that they can burnish a child's development in unique and valuable ways. Now, for the first time, scientists have scanned grandmothers' brains while ...
Nov 16, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Synaptic regulation of corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons involved in depression pathology
Depression, a common mental disorder, can severely disturb the life of its patients. A hypothesis stated that the excitatory synapses characterized by the post-synaptic density (PSD) in the hypothalamus, which played a crucial ...
Oct 11, 2021
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Health
Sleep loss does not impact ability to assess emotional information
It's no secret that going without sleep can affect people's mood, but a new study shows it does not interfere with their ability to evaluate emotional situations.
Oct 11, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Therapeutic potential of Mozart for medication-resistant epilepsy
Listening to Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448) for at least 30 seconds may be associated with less frequent spikes of epilepsy-associated electrical activity in the brain in people with medication-resistant ...
Sep 16, 2021
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