Psychology & Psychiatry
Couldn't socially distance? Blame your working memory
Whether you decided to engage in social distancing in the early stages of COVID-19 depended on how much information your working memory could hold.
Jul 11, 2020
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Certain personality traits may affect risk of 'pre-dementia'
A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society examined five personality traits—neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness—and their links to pre-dementia conditions ...
Jun 3, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Insomnia has many faces
Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience revealed that there are five types of insomnia. This finding was published on Monday January 7 by The Lancet Psychiatry. A commentary in the journal stated that the ...
Jan 9, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Can personality be measured?
An international team of researchers has developed a new method to assess the intelligence and personality by analyzing neurophysiological data of the human brain. Researchers with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid are among ...
Nov 26, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychopathy linked to white-matter abnormalities in impulsive male offenders
Impulsive offenders with psychopathic traits have abnormal brain connections. The integrity of their so called 'white-matter' tracts between brain areas is decreased. Researchers from Radboud University and the Dutch Institute ...
Apr 30, 2018
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Genetics
Estimating the effect of genetic mutations on neurodevelopmental disorders more accurately
A recent study, co-edited by Canadian researchers (CHU Sainte-Justine, the Université de Montréal) and French researchers (the Institut Pasteur and the university Paris-Diderot), presents a model that can predict the effect ...
Mar 30, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Personality changes don't precede clinical onset of Alzheimer's, study shows
For years, scientists and physicians have been debating whether personality and behavior changes might appear prior to the onset of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Sep 21, 2017
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Neuroscience
Study: Mental abilities are shaped by individual differences in the brain
Everyone has a different mixture of personality traits: some are outgoing, some are tough and some are anxious. A new study suggests that brains also have different traits that affect both anatomical and cognitive factors, ...
Feb 25, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study bolsters the special status of the brain's face recognition ability
(Medical Xpress)—There is seemingly no cognitive load associated with the near-instantaneous recognition of individual faces. Indeed, facial recognition is so innate and so obviously critical to human social exchange that ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Not all psychopaths fit the stereotype: Many hide unmanageable emotion, can be helped with right therapy
Movie villains from Norman Bates to Hannibal Lecter have popularized the notion of the psychopath as cold, cruel, lacking in empathy and beyond the reach of treatment.
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