Youth brain activation data from the largest longitudinal neuroimaging study to date provides valuable new information on the cognitive processes and brain systems that underlie adolescent development and might contribute ...
Jun 7, 2021
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Skeletal muscle is the largest organ in the body. It accounts for 30 to 40% of body weight and is responsible for multiple functions such as energy metabolism and heat production. However, skeletal muscle mass is reduced ...
May 26, 2021
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Autumn Kujawa, assistant professor of psychology and human development, has been conducting one of the first studies tracking people's response to stress exposure before and during the pandemic. Kujawa's team set out to determine ...
May 24, 2021
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Aggression is common in many neuropsychiatric diseases, such as dementia, autism spectrum disorder, and schizophrenia. It causes many problems for patients and their families, but can be difficult to treat because little ...
May 18, 2021
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Autistic people across Europe have not only struggled to access standard health and care services during the pandemic, but, crucially, also those for COVID-19, finds research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
May 18, 2021
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Children who learn that a dollar is 'dirty' are apprehensive to take it, preferring instead to accept a dollar that does not have a negative moral history, a new study shows.
May 12, 2021
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Conducting a discussion in a noisy place can be challenging when other conversations and background noises interfere with our ability to focus attention on our conversation partner. How the brain deals with the abundance ...
May 10, 2021
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Individuals' perceptions of science as a source of superior knowledge can predict the likelihood of mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study led by University of Maine psychology researchers.
Apr 30, 2021
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Black individuals have higher rates of hypertension compared to Americans of European or Hispanic ancestry. Yet the contributions of genetic ancestry to this ethnic disparity in hypertension risk are not well known.
Apr 30, 2021
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New research from the Florida State University College of Medicine has found that the personality trait neuroticism is consistently associated with a higher risk of developing the brain disorder Parkinson's disease.
Apr 15, 2021
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