AddictionFeb 10, 2025
New treatments are needed for alcohol addiction. Are drugs like Ozempic the answer?
Kara Stainbrook depended on alcohol to get through the day for two years. The 45-year-old from Mercer, Pennsylvania, was going ...
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Developmental PsychologyFeb 10, 2025
Developmental psychologists and statisticians come together to ensure research tools measure up
Developmental psychologists like Catarina Vales want to know how kids understand the world. Like all researchers, she relies on ...
Military & First RespondersFeb 9, 2025
First responder mental health survey results released
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled the findings from New York's ...
RefugeesFeb 9, 2025
Germany: Refugees stigmatized as anti-migrant wave swells
After deadly knife attacks involving suspects with immigrant backgrounds, curbing immigration has come to dominate Germany's ...
Child PsychologyFeb 8, 2025
How To Introduce Psychology To Children: The First Steps Towards Mental Health Awareness
In the modern world, mental health awareness has grown significantly for adults and children. Early exposure to psychology and ...
Child PsychologyFeb 7, 2025
RFA for 2025 Undergrad Summer Research Now Available
The Autism Science Foundation is now accepting applications for our 2025 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship in ASD. This is an incredible opportunity for highly qualified students to gain hands-on experience […]…
Compliance programsFeb 7, 2025
Collaborative Mental Health Programs in Primary Care
This post was co-authored by Maria Auxiliadora Sanchez Ledesma and Robert Muller, PhD. “Reason for referral: anxious depressive ...
AddictionFeb 7, 2025
Researchers achieve total synthesis of ibogaine
Researchers have achieved total chemical synthesis of the psychoactive compound ibogaine and its analogs from pyridine. The discovery will make it easier to explore the therapeutic possibilities of ibogaine.
Cognitive PsychologyFeb 6, 2025
Electroencephalography may help guide treatments for language disorders
Electroencephalography (EEG) may offer a more accessible alternative to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for guiding transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) when treating aphasia. Researchers found an…
Diversity & CultureFeb 6, 2025
Scientists discover brain mechanism that helps us overcome fear
Researchers have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to overcome instinctive fears. The study in mice could have implications for developing therapeutics for fear-related disorders such as phobias…
School & EducationFeb 6, 2025
Improved brain decoder holds promise for communication in people with aphasia
A new AI-based tool can translate a person's thoughts into continuous text, without requiring the person to comprehend spoken words. This latest advance suggests it may be possible, with further refinement, for brain…
Health PsychologyFeb 6, 2025
The two proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease affect brain circuits differently
A research team has discovered that the two key pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's -- tau protein and beta-amyloid -- affect brain circuits in distinct yet synergistic ways, particularly those linked to memory and…
Diversity & CultureFeb 6, 2025
Fear of breast cancer recurrence: Impact and coping with being in a dark place
A new study of breast cancer survivors has found this psychosocial challenge impacts almost every important domain of their lives -- the emotional, behavioral, cognitive, relational and professional. A larger number of…
AddictionFeb 6, 2025
Research in fruit flies pinpoints brain pathways involved in alcohol-induced insomnia
Research in fruit flies has identified specific groups of cholinergic brain cells that are involved in alcohol-induced insomnia. This work could ultimately lead to targeted treatments for alcohol-related sleep loss…
Civil mattersFeb 6, 2025
Why Black History Matters for All Men’s Mental Health
This post is taken from my remarks at a City Council meeting. My name is Jewel Woods, and I am the founder of Male Behavioral ...
Mental HealthFeb 6, 2025
7 Women Who Embrace Their Mental Health Diagnoses As Entrepreneurial Superpowers
In my five-part series on mental health and entrepreneurship, I’m sharing the personal stories of women managing diagnoses like ...
AI & TechnologyFeb 6, 2025
An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it
While Nomi's chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the ...
NeuropsychologyFeb 5, 2025
Researchers have detected microplastics in the human brain
Plastics are practical and have become an integral part of our lives. However, they also have a threatening downside: In the form ...
School & EducationFeb 5, 2025
School bans alone not enough to tackle negative impacts of phone and social media use, researchers find
Students attending schools that ban the use of phones throughout the school day aren't necessarily experiencing better mental health and wellbeing, as the first worldwide study of its kind has found that just banning…
Health PsychologyFeb 5, 2025
Mouth bacteria may hold insight into your future brain function
A new study has found that certain bacteria were associated with better memory and attention, while others were linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.
AddictionFeb 5, 2025
Carbohydrate cravings in depression
Depression affects 280 million people worldwide. The mental illness has been proven to lead to changes in eating behavior. Researchers have discovered that although patients with depression generally have less appetite…
Mental HealthFeb 5, 2025
Spinal cord stimulation restores neural function, targets key feature of progressive neurodegenerative disease
Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, including ALS.
School & EducationFeb 5, 2025
Fool yourself: People unknowingly cheat on tasks to feel smarter, healthier
When given the opportunity, individuals will cheat to feel smarter or healthier, engaging in diagnostic self-deception to convince themselves that their performance is due to their ability and not the cheating, according…
School & EducationFeb 5, 2025
Study in India shows kids use different math skills at work vs. school
A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.
Family & RelationshipsFeb 5, 2025
New Sex Book Alert: Sex Work Today
Despite how long sex work has existed (after all, some refer to it as “the oldest profession in the world”), it is still heavily stigmatized. While sex worker stigma isn’t anything new, sex work itself has evolved and…
NeuropsychologyFeb 5, 2025
What the new field of women’s neuroscience reveals about female brains
There is a huge hole in our understanding of the brain. A gaping, woman-shaped hole. While neuroscience has given us countless ...
PolicyFeb 4, 2025
Opinion Politicians, please put mental health policy at the heart of this new government
Ireland’s current mental health policy, ‘Sharing the Vision, A Mental Health Policy For Everyone’, recognises and sets a clear path to reframe mental health services. It includes actions to change ...
Health PsychologyFeb 4, 2025
New drug shows promise in reversing memory loss for early Alzheimer's patients
A paradigm-shifting study shows an experimental drug, GL-II-73, has the potential to restore memory and cognitive function in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. The study demonstrates that the drug improves memory…
Diversity & CultureFeb 4, 2025
Scientists identify Alzheimer's disease-protective genetic factors and unravel disease mechanisms
An international research team has identified key genetic factors that confer protective effects against Alzheimer's disease (AD) through a comprehensive genetic analysis of East Asian populations, including Chinese and…
AddictionFeb 4, 2025
Maternal stress during pregnancy could leave traces in the placenta that could affect the baby's development
Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very early stages. The…