March 24, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
For women who are suffering from breast cancer, concern for their children is the greatest source of worry. A researcher at The Sahlgrenska Academy has shown this, and believes that women who are at the earliest stage of the treatment should be offered…
March 24, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Parents might take a lesson from Goldilocks and find a balanced approach to guide their teens in making moral, safe online decisions, according to Penn State researchers.
March 24, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
More and more, computers are showing their superiority over humans in a multitude of tasks. A new study reveals that a computer system is able to detect – with better accuracy than a human – whether our expressions of pain are genuine or phony.
March 24, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Scientists have presented the most conclusive evidence yet that genes play a significant role in parenting.A study by two Michigan State University psychologists refutes the popular theory that how adults parent their children is strictly a function of…
March 24, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Caffeine-fueled cram sessions are routine occurrences on any college campus. But what if there was a better, safer way to learn new or difficult material more quickly? What if “thinking caps” were real? Scientists have now shown that it is possible to …
March 23, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
A new clinical trial will soon begin testing whether early medical intervention in people at risk for Alzheimer’s can slow down progression of disease pathology before symptoms emerge, as outlined in Science Translational Medicine. For the first time, …
March 23, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Building a strong connection to a social group helps clinically depressed patients recover and helps prevent relapse, according to a new study.For the paper, (CIFAR) Senior Fellow Alexander Haslam, lead author Tegan Cruwys and their colleagues at the U…
March 23, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Verbal interactions between parents and children create a social feedback loop important for language development, according to research forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. That loop appears to …
March 23, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
More women than men suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.
March 22, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Some doctors are too quick to prescribe antidepressants to parents who have suffered the death of a child either during pregnancy or within the first month of life, according to a study conducted by Florida State University researcher Jeffrey R. Lacass…
