Health
Board game confronts 'ickiness' of gut health
Researchers are using the play-based approach of board games to improve our understanding of gastrointestinal health.
Feb 2, 2023
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News tagged with human interaction
Neuroscience
Technologically assisted communication may impair brain development
Videoconferencing services are proliferating—there's Zoom, Teams, Messenger, FaceTime, Skype, WhatsApp—and since the COVID-19 pandemic they have been seeing heavier use than ever before.
Jan 17, 2023
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Autism spectrum disorders
Pop'Balloons: The first serious mixed-reality game for autistic children
Demand for mental health assessment and intervention is soaring; available services are stretched to the limit, centralized and difficult for many to access. This is particularly true for children with autism spectrum disorder ...
Dec 9, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Fast track to fertility program halves time to treatment
When struggling to conceive, every second that ticks by feels precious. That makes it easy to get discouraged: 65 percent of those who seek fertility care eventually discontinue treatment, the majority due to stress. That's ...
Oct 7, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
How the smell of food can enable 'time travel'
Older people exposed to food flavors from their youth were able to "time travel" back to the past with an enhanced memory of the event.
Oct 5, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Walking in a crowd: Biological motion induces contextual attraction effect
Human perception is not always a faithful representation of the physical world, as it can be significantly biased by the surrounding context. For example, the orientation of a vertical grating is perceived away from that ...
Sep 9, 2022
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Medical economics
Could 'virtual nurses' be the answer to aged care staffing woes? Dream on
Former Health Department Chief Martin Bowles has reportedly proposed "virtual nurses" could help address the shortage of nurses in aged care.
Aug 5, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Raising awareness of spina bifida
Spina bifida is the most common birth defect of the central nervous system and the second most common of all structural birth defects. To learn more about it, Baylor College of Medicine's From the Labs sat with Dr. Richard ...
Aug 4, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Pandemic has put long-haul pilots in a stressful tailspin
Stress levels among commercial airline pilots have skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, putting their mental health at risk, according to a new study by the University of South Australia.
Aug 3, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Technology boosts psychosocial well-being of people with dementia
The Ph.D. research of Yuan Feng focuses on promoting the well-being of a vulnerable population in our society—people with dementia—using interactive technologies. Collaborating with the Vitalis Berckelhof, a Dutch residential ...
Jul 11, 2022
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