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Video Gaming Prepares Brain For Bigger Tasks
Playing video games for hours on end may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a new study has shown. Reorganisation of the brain's cortical network in young men with significant experience playing video games gives them an advantage not only in playing the games but also in performing other tasks requiring ...
Current Decisions Shape Your Future Preferences
Psychologists have known for a long time that after you make a choice, you adjust your opinion to think better of the thing you chose. Now a new study has found that this is true even if you don't know the options that you're choosing between. People change their minds about a choice after ...
Psychological pain of Holocaust still haunts survivors
Holocaust survivors show remarkable resilience in their day-to-day lives, but they still manifest the pain of their traumatic past in the form of various psychiatric symptoms, according to an analysis of 44 years of global psychological research.
Can’t focus? Maybe it’s the wrong time of month, finds estrogen study on attention and learning
Feeling a little sluggish and having trouble concentrating? Hormones might be to blame according to new research. The study shows that high estrogen levels are associated with an inability to pay attention and learn -- the first such paper to report how this impediment can be due to a direct effect of the hormone on ...
Video gaming prepares brain for bigger tasks
Playing video games for hours on end may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a new study has shown. Reorganization of the brain's cortical network in young men with significant experience playing video games gives them an advantage not only in playing the games but also in performing other tasks requiring ...
Stress hormone impacts on alcohol recovery
Scientists have found that high levels of a stress hormone in recovering alcoholics could increase the risk of relapse.
Partners Of Breast Cancer Patients Are At Risk Of Developing Mood Disorders
A new analysis finds that men whose partners have breast cancer are at increased risk of developing mood disorders that are so severe that they warrant hospitalization. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that clinicians should address the mental health of cancer patients' loved ones...
MIT Neuroscientists Reveal How The Brain Learns To Recognize Objects
Understanding how the brain recognizes objects is a central challenge for understanding human vision, and for designing artificial vision systems. (No computer system comes close to human vision.) A new study by MIT neuroscientists suggests that the brain learns to solve the problem of object recognition through its vast experience in the natural world. Take ...
Addiction Experts Available To Talk About Importance Of Family Meals
University of Florida experts are available to answer questions from media members about the importance of talking with children during family meals...
Psychotropic Medication And Youth In Foster Care Report
The Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) issued a landmark report from a multi-state study on psychotropic medication oversight in foster care. Led by Laurel K...