Psychology & Psychiatry
Unveiling a new map that reveals the hidden personalities of jobs
Thousands of Australian students will get their Higher School Certificates this week—how many will choose the 'right career'?
Dec 16, 2019
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Learning is optimized when we fail 15% of the time
To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. But what's the right amount of failure? New research led by the University of Arizona proposes a mathematical answer to that question.
Nov 5, 2019
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Who will get depressed under major stress? Study shows promise of genetic risk prediction
Depression doesn't come from one gene, one life event, or one personality trait. That's what makes it so hard to predict, prevent or treat effectively.
Oct 28, 2019
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Reading the past like an open book: Researchers use text to measure 200 years of happiness
Was there such a thing as 'the good old days' when people were happier? Are current Government policies more or less likely to increase their citizens' feelings of wellbeing?
Oct 14, 2019
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Scientists reverse core symptom of schizophrenia in adult mice
Columbia researchers have restored normal working memory to a mouse model of schizophrenia, eliminating a core symptom of the disorder that, in people, has proven virtually impossible to treat.
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Mechanisms of real-time speech interpretation in the human brain revealed
Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how we're able to understand spoken language so rapidly, and it involves a huge and complex set of computations in the brain.
Sep 30, 2019
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New evidence that optimists live longer
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, have found that individuals with greater optimism are more ...
Aug 26, 2019
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Culture shapes how we learn to reason?
If you made any plans for next week, congratulations! You've demonstrated a key feature of being human: being able to think beyond the here and now—or, think abstractly. But when babies learn different kinds of abstract ...
Jun 24, 2019
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Neuroscientists 3-D model 'face identity information' stored in the brain
In a world first, neuroscientists from the University of Glasgow have been able to construct 3-D facial models using the unique information stored in an individual's brain when recalling the face of a familiar person.
Jun 18, 2019
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Personalized digital meditation training program improves attention and memory in healthy young adults
Scientists at UC San Francisco have developed a personalized digital meditation training program that significantly improved attention and memory in healthy young adults—a group already at the peak of brain health—in ...
Jun 3, 2019
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