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Every parent has their own sense of what is best for raising their child. But a new study, presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2014 meeting, suggests that kids whose parents are strict but not emotionally receptive are mor…
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A new UBC study reveals that corporate leaders are victims of herd mentality when adopting new innovations, sometimes with deadly consequencesThe paper, by Sauder School of Business Associate Professor Marc-David L. Seidel and INSEAD Professor Henrich R.
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A new study offers evidence that simple and inexpensive changes to existing courses can help students learn more effectively.The study from Rice University and Duke University found that making a few changes to homework assignments in an upper-level un…
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As the world celebrates International Day of Happiness today (Thursday, 20 March), can we tell whether people are truly happy just from their laugh? “During our study, when participants heard a laugh that was posed, they activated regions of the brain…
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People who develop diabetes and high blood pressure in middle age are more likely to have brain cell loss and other damage to the brain, as well as problems with memory and thinking skills, than people who never have diabetes or high blood pressure or …
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Building a strong connection to a social group helps clinically depressed patients recover and helps prevent relapse, according to a new study. While past research has looked at the importance of social connections for preventing and treating depressio…
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A gene regulator active during fetal brain development, called REST, switches back on later in life to protect aging neurons from various stresses, including the toxic effects of abnormal proteins. The researchers in a new study also showed that REST i…
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In a new study, neuroscientists describe the first activity maps at the resolution of single cells and throughout the entire brain of behaving zebrafish.
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Sleep loss may be more serious than previously thought, causing a permanent loss of brain cells, research suggests.
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Influential policy-informing ‘evidence’ that children’s brains are irreversibly ‘sculpted’ by parental care is based on questionable evidence. The study highlights that mothers, in particular, are told that if they are stressed while pregnant or suffer…
