Newborn babies can perceive the beat in music, new research has confirmed. The study, carried out by a team of scientists from the University of Amsterdam and the HUN-REN Research Center for Natural Sciences (TTK) in Hungary, ...
Nov 27, 2023
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Holiday travel might come with some extra baggage this year: traffic, delays and disruptions. While this is unavoidable, remaining calm will facilitate your chaotic travel days. A Baylor College of Medicine expert provides ...
Nov 20, 2023
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A Northwestern University pediatric psychologist—who advises Ukrainian charity workers and therapists about working with that country's traumatized children—shares her expertise regarding how to support children affected ...
Nov 14, 2023
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If you start exercising for the promise of a little extra money, you may keep up the habit even after the financial incentives are gone, new research from University of Western Ontario suggests.
Nov 14, 2023
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Making decisions is hard. Our choice often leaves something else on the table even when we know what we want. For a hungry mouse, every morsel counts. But what if the decision is more consequential than choosing between crumbs ...
Nov 8, 2023
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At what age does an adolescent start thinking as an adult? A new study published this week in Nature Communications presents some of the first definitive evidence that executive function—a set of cognitive skills underlying ...
Oct 31, 2023
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A new study from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine, University of Utah and University of Exeter (UK) substantiates previous groundbreaking research that rumination (overthinking) can ...
Oct 27, 2023
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In a mouse study designed to explore the impact of marijuana's major psychoactive compound, THC, on teenage brains, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found changes to the structure of microglia, which are specialized ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Curiosity paradoxically increases people's patience for an answer, while simultaneously making them more eager to hear it, finds a new study by Duke neuroscientists.
Oct 24, 2023
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The gaps in the U.S. mental health system are too numerous to count, but perhaps the most harrowing one is at the front door, at entry. Who do you call? Where exactly do you turn when a loved one goes off-track? How do you ...
Oct 20, 2023
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