Psychology & Psychiatry
New clues about autism subtypes
Two groundbreaking studies at the UC Davis MIND Institute provide clues about possible types of autism linked to brain structure, including size and white matter growth.
Dec 17, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Who's to blame? How the media has shaped public understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has been characterized by rapidly changing information, a high degree of uncertainty, and conflicting information about transmission, vulnerability and mitigation methods. Several studies ...
Dec 16, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds that by age 3 kids prefer nature's fractal patterns
Before their third birthdays, children already have an adult-like preference for visual fractal patterns commonly seen in nature, report University of Oregon researchers.
Dec 11, 2020
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Neuroscience
Video: Human brain scan
This colorful brain scan is a 3-D model created by tractography, which uses data collected with diffusion weighted MRI to map the brain's white matter. Each line represents a bundle of nerve fibers wrapped in a myelin sheaths, ...
Dec 9, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers share database for studying individual differences in language skills
Why do people differ in their ability to use language? As part of a larger study into this question, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and Radboud University tested 122 adult native speakers ...
Dec 8, 2020
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Pediatrics
Does the COVID-19 pandemic impact parents' and adolescents' well-being?
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated measures during the first lockdown in the Netherlands in March 2020 caused major changes in daily life. Parents worked from home and children followed school online. Therefore, the families ...
Oct 28, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
COVID-19 anxiety linked to body image issues
A new study has found that anxiety and stress directly linked to COVID-19 could be causing a number of body image issues amongst women and men.
Oct 23, 2020
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Neuroscience
Exploring prediction errors that can influence human perceptions of time
Humans can sometimes perceive the passing of time differently, for instance, feeling as though an hour passed very quickly or that a few minutes went by extremely slowly. This suggests that the human perception of time is ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Breastfeeding hormones make mothers happier
Oxytocin is one of the most important hormones between a mother and her baby. Researchers at Kyoto University and Azabu University in Japan report in a new study that the levels of oxytocin correspond to a mother's sensitivity ...
Sep 30, 2020
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Neuroscience
New model of human brain 'conversations' could inform research on brain disease, cognition
A team of Indiana University neuroscientists has built a new model of human brain networks that sheds light on how the brain functions.
Sep 14, 2020
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