Psychology & Psychiatry
Music therapy aims to develop emotion regulation in preschoolers
Telling an adult, much less a preschooler, to calm down is easier said than done. But it is a skill that can be learned.
Sep 24, 2019
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Immunology
How chronic inflammation may drive down dopamine and motivation
Growing evidence shows that the brain's dopamine system, which drives motivation, is directly affected by chronic, low-grade inflammation. A new paper proposes that this connection between dopamine, effort and the inflammatory ...
Jun 04, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Two studies describe disruptive and abusive behavior among clinicians in operating rooms
Assessments of the number of disruptive and abusive behaviors occurring in operating rooms in the USA, Canada and elsewhere is reported in two studies in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, which is published by Springer. ...
Mar 22, 2019
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Neuroscience
New evidence for a human magnetic sense that lets your brain detect the Earth's magnetic field
Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it helps creatures including bees, turtles and birds navigate through the world.
Mar 19, 2019
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Neuroscience
Born to run: just not on cocaine
Cocaine is a highly addictive psychostimulant that induces complex molecular, cellular and behavioral responses. Despite various approaches and years of pre-clinical studies, effective, mechanism-based therapies to assist ...
Jan 16, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Sensitive babies become altruistic toddlers
Our responsiveness to seeing others in distress accounts for variability in helping behavior from early in development, according to a study published September 25 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Tobias Grossmann ...
Sep 25, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
People are more honest when using a foreign tongue, research finds
New UChicago-led research suggests that someone who speaks in a foreign language is probably more credible than the average native speaker.
Aug 17, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
You don't need to believe in free will to be a nice person, shows new research
Contrary to a widely-held view in psychology and other fields of research, belief in free will appears to be unrelated to moral behavior. Social psychologist Damien Crone from the University of Melbourne and Philosophy professor ...
Jun 25, 2018
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Immunology
Feed a virus but starve bacteria? When you're sick, it may really matter
Think back to the last time you came down with a cold and what it felt like to be sick. For most people, the feeling of sickness is a set of psychological and behavioral changes including fatigue, lethargy, changes in appetite, ...
Sep 28, 2016
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Immunology
Shocking new role found for the immune system: Controlling social interaction
In a startling discovery that raises fundamental questions about human behavior, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the immune system directly affects - and even controls - creatures' ...
Jul 13, 2016
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