Psychological Phenomena: News and Research on Cognition

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Hospital drills reveal keys to wartime mass casualty response

Regular drills are crucial if a mass casualty plan is to work in a wartime situation. Focusing on staff safety in the plan itself and taking information flows into account are also important factors for success. These are ...

As AI enters health care, are we ready?

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of how people seek, interpret and act on health information. Yet the technology is advancing faster than the evidence needed to determine whether these systems actually help ...

What to know about dementia—and ways to prevent it

Dementia touches many lives—in many different ways. Most people have some firsthand experience of it, whether with an aging family member, friend or neighbor. More than 6 million people in the U.S. have some type of dementia, ...

Specialized imaging reveals hormone-driven brain changes

A new study from the University of Delaware shows that fluctuations in estrogen influence the brain, helping reshape connections between neurons. Researchers showed that a specialized imaging technique called magnetic resonance ...

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