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Cohabitating Valentines Are Happier Than Wedded Couples
When it comes to the well-being of married versus cohabitating Valentines, wedded couples experience few advantages in psychological well-being and social ties, according to a new study at Cornell University.
Magic Mushrooms For Depression
It seems the tide of opinion against illegal drugs is turning once again with scientists proclaiming that the Psilocybin Mushroom, popular with party goers and better known as Shrooms or Magic Mushrooms, should be successful for treating people with depression...
Inability To Express Emotion May Be An Early Symptom Of Parkinson’s Disease
Alexithymia, a person's state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions, has been strongly linked to depression in both clinical and general populations, and even though symptoms of alexithymia and depression can be partially overlapping, they are not all related to depressive symptoms and therefore highlight the relative independence of the two disorders...
Does Inability To Express Emotions Affect Treatment In Substance Abuse?
Alexithymia describes a person's state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions, and even though the rate for alexithymia in those with substance use disorders is reported to be almost 67%, there are few studies that have evaluated therapy in alexithymic SUD patients...
MIT Research: The Advantage Of Ambiguity In Language
Most think that language evolved as a way for people to exchange information, however, linguists and other communication students have long reasoned over why language evolved...
Religion helps us gain self-control, study suggests
Thinking about religion gives people more self-control on later, unrelated tasks, according to results from a series of recent studies.
How longstanding conflict influences empathy for others
A young researcher had long been drawn to conflict -- not as a participant, but an observer. In 1994, while doing volunteer work in South Africa, he witnessed firsthand the turmoil surrounding the fall of apartheid; during a 2001 trip to visit friends in Sri Lanka, he found himself in the midst of the violent ...
Babies are born with ‘intuitive physics’ knowledge, says researcher
While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of "intuitive physics."
It’s evolution: Nature of prejudice, aggression different for men and women
Prejudice against people from groups different than their own is linked to aggression for men and fear for women, suggests new research.
Children with autism have lower levels of HDL
Scientists looked at blood levels of lipids and fatty acids in two groups of South Korean children – one group of typically developing boys and another group of boys with an autism diagnosis. Even though there were no major differences in what these children ate, those with autism had a lower omega-3 to omega-6 fatty ...