Psychology & Psychiatry
Cannabis reduces short-term motivation to work for money: study
Smoking the equivalent of a single 'spliff' of cannabis makes people less willing to work for money while 'high', finds a new UCL study.
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Going for a walk outside found to have more mental health benefits than walking indoors
A team of researchers at the University of Victoria, working with a colleague from York University, both in Canada, has found that going for a short walk outdoors provides people with more mental health benefits than going ...
Neuroscience
Researchers use closed-loop feedback from the brain to improve attention abilities
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at Princeton University has found a way to improve the attention span of volunteers in a study. In their paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the team describes how ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Study indicates willpower not depleted by use nor replenished by food
(Medical Xpress)—A team composed of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Zurich has found evidence that suggests willpower is not depleted by use, nor replenished by glucose. In their paper, published ...
Neuroscience
Brain activity in sex addiction mirrors that of drug addiction
Pornography triggers brain activity in people with compulsive sexual behaviour – known commonly as sex addiction – similar to that triggered by drugs in the brains of drug addicts, according to a University of Cambridge ...
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Study finds out why some words may be more memorable than others
Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences. In a recent study of epilepsy patients and healthy volunteers, National Institutes of ...
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Vaccine trial participants who received placebo now hop the line for the real thing from Pfizer, Moderna
Good news for tens of thousands of volunteers in the COVID-19 vaccine trials: Many of those who received a placebo are now being offered a vaccine—in some cases, earlier than they would otherwise have been eligible.
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Medications
Adding tirzepatide to basal insulin cuts HbA1c levels in people with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes
A team of medical researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. working with a colleague from Spain has found via clinical trial that adding tirzepatide (brand name Mounjaro) to basal insulin therapies can ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers find eating with someone else makes people eat smaller portions, but more often
A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has found that people tend to consume smaller amounts of food when they are with someone else than when alone, but eat more often. In their paper published in the journal Royal ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Watching doppelgangers helps men with low self-esteem improve public speech abilities
A team of researchers from the University of Lausanne and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, both in Switzerland, has found that men improve their speech-giving skills after watching a doppelganger of themselves ...
