Today, one-in-five Americans finds his or her spouse via online dating websites, but according to researchers, marriage isn’t the only measure of success among people looking for love in cyberspace.
One and a half decades ago, human development textbooks taught that babies of 6 months or younger had no sense of whether an object still exists even when it is out of sight. For example, if the parents were not in the same room as the infant, the infant believed that his parents did not exist anymore, which, in psychological terms is called not having a sense “object permanence”…
A study by Paula Chesley of the University of Alberta published in the December issue of the online journal PLoS ONE reveals that people who listen to hip-hop music can learn new vocabulary, even though the lyrics may be difficult to understand…
Recent research has found striking links between psychotic disorders and certain types of international immigration. Now for the first time, a major study has found that immigrating in early childhood appears to carry the highest risk and that the younger the age at migration, the higher the risk of psychotic disorders. The study — the first to include data on age at migration — suggests that there may be an early window of vulnerability.
Scientists have discovered that when mice with diabetes are injected with a specific protein, they experience the same brain lesions and disabilities that occur in human MS patients. Monitoring this brain lesion process through magnetic resonance imaging, scientists say they’re on the path to treating MS more effectively.
A report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals shows that different ingredients in marijuana seem to affect brain regions differently during brain processing functions that involve responses to certain visual stimuli and tasks. Dr…
Psychiatric disorders can be described on many levels, the most traditional of which are subjective descriptions of the experience of being depressed and the use of rating scales that quantify depressive symptoms…
Is losing weight as simple as doing a 15-minute writing exercise? In a new study, women who wrote about their most important values, like close relationships, music, or religion, lost more weight over the next few months than women who did not have that experience.
It’s official: Older adults are naturally inclined to drive in the middle of the road, leaving the younger generation to cut corners.
Blogging may have psychological benefits for teens suffering from social anxiety, improving their self-esteem and helping them relate better to their friends, according to new research.
