Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods and hurricanes increasingly feature in people's lives and are predicted to become more frequent and intense in the coming decades. These events are having a significant yet often overlooked ...
Nov 9, 2022
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Every year approximately 9,000 people are admitted to hospital with stroke in Norway. Some of those who have a stroke also experience a temporary state of acute confusion. This condition is called delirium and often occurs ...
Nov 1, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease is associated with a reduction of insulin receptors in brain microvessels, which may contribute to brain insulin resistance and the formation of amyloid plaques, one of the disease's hallmarks. That's ...
Oct 24, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic generated a unique scenario to analyze the psychological impact of global and extreme situations on the population. Now, a study reveals the importance of the configuration of individual brain networks—before ...
Sep 27, 2022
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Am I over the hill? This question comes up regularly among workers over 50. A common prejudice is that older people's efficiency and stress-tolerance are continuously decreasing. But mental performance, self-confidence, psychological ...
Sep 19, 2022
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How do we understand words? Scientists don't fully understand what happens when a word pops into your brain. A research group led by Professor Shogo Makioka at the Graduate School of Sustainable System Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan ...
Sep 15, 2022
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"Facts First" is the tagline of a CNN branding campaign which contends that "once facts are established, opinions can be formed." The problem is that while it sounds logical, this appealing assertion is a fallacy not supported ...
Aug 12, 2022
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How does work affect our daily lives and how does it affect our mental and physical health? How do technical solutions change people and how can devices be made more human-centric? A five-person team at the Fraunhofer Institute ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Cognitive psychologists at the University of Exeter believe they have discovered the answer to a 60-year-old question as to why people find it more difficult to recognize faces from visually distinct racial backgrounds than ...
Jul 29, 2022
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New University of Otago research suggests the brain function of otherwise-healthy individuals exposed to event trauma has the ability to "bounce back" over time once the threat resolves.
Jun 29, 2022
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