Toxoplasma exposure can increase the likelihood of developing psychosis in those with risk factors for mental health disorders, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Consuming Fruit and Vegetables and Exercising Can Make You Happier
First of a kind study reveals the causal relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise, and happiness, rather than a generalized correlation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: True Behavior of Dopamine Will Reshape How We Treat Psychiatric Diseases and Addiction
A new study finds dopamine increases responses to stressful stimuli, not just pleasurable ones. The findings could have implications for the treatment of mental health disorders and addiction.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Primate Mothers May Carry Infants After Death as a Way of Grieving
Studying 50 species of primates, researchers found 80% of the species studied performed corpse carrying behaviors as a way to process grief. Following the loss of an infant, some primate mothers carried the body for up to four months following death.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: No, Stress Isn’t Always Bad. Here’s How to Harness It
Reinterpreting stress response as performance-enhancing makes people less anxious and improves general wellbeing, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Do Alexa and Siri Make Kids Bossier?
A new study shows how sophisticated social awareness in children can be in the transference of behavior.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: To Cheat or Not to Cheat?
Study reveals cognitive control can drive cheaters to be honest, and honest people to cheat.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Personality Matters, Even for Squirrels
Squirrels have four main personality traits, researchers report. Understanding how an animal’s personality influences use of space may be important for wildlife conservation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Making And Breaking Eye Contact Makes Conversation More Engaging
Study reveals a correlation between instances of eye contact and higher levels of engagement during conversations.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Who’s in Cognitive Control?
Differences in cognitive control appear to be a matter of degree in healthy individuals.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Regular Exercise May Lower Risk of Developing Anxiety by Almost 60%
Those who exercise regularly may lower their risk of developing anxiety by 60%, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Too Much Free Time May Be Almost as Bad as Too Little
Having too much free time can be almost as bad for your overall wellbeing as having little or no time to yourself, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Boys Linked to Early Androgens
Male children with isolated GnRH deficiency (IGD), a rare endocrine disorder associated with a lack of sex hormone during the second trimester of development, report more gender non-conformity than males without IGD. The same was not true for females w…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Link Between ADHD and Dementia Across Generations
People with ADHD had a 34% higher risk of developing dementia than those without the disorder. The risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the most common type of dementia, was 55% higher for those with ADHD.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Studying Culturally Endorsed Parental Lies
Study will focus on the social and cultural reasons that drive parents to mislead or induce false beliefs in their children.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Boom in Social Stress May Contribute to Population Decline
Researchers hypothesis the projected decline in global population by 2064 will be a result of social stress.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Social Isolation Can Be Deadly for Older Adults
Socially isolated older adults are more likely to die when admitted to ICU or face an increased risk of disability once discharged than those who have social support.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New Open Access Resource Counters Misinformation on Genomics of Human Behavior
A new, open access repository incorporates frequently asked questions and answers by genomics researchers to provide a better general understanding of what their studies do, and do not show.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: PTSD Differences Between Males and Females
Virginia Tech researchers have been awarded a grant to study how a protein system impacts fear conditioning differences between males and females.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: White Matter and Schizophrenia
White matter functional connectivity distributions may contribute to working memory and processing speed impairments in schizophrenia.
