Psychology & Psychiatry

What if you lose a parent at a young age? 'Grief lasts a lifetime'

Adults who lost a parent during childhood tend to experience greater attachment anxiety in romantic relationships, according to Carline van Heijningen's doctoral research. However, this anxiety was less pronounced among those ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Swedish teens' mental health: A tale of two extremes in well-being

More teenagers report high mental well-being—yet at the same time, those who are struggling rate their depressive symptoms significantly higher than previous cohorts did at the same age, according to a study from the University ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Fluorescent sensors reveal dopamine signals in primate brains

Most people are familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Behind this mechanism is dopamine released within the striatum, the largest structure of ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Understanding children's subjective experiences through color

In psychology and neuroscience, the relationship between subjective experience, such as how we perceive color, and physical brain activity has remained an unresolved problem. Furthermore, due to their limited language abilities, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

How to learn a language like a baby

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate toddlers who acquire languages ...

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