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Study highlights an important link between dietary fiber intake and depression

Fiber is a commonly recommended part of a healthy diet. That's because it's good for your health in so many ways--from weight management to reducing the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancer.

6 Jan 2021

Researchers investigate how COVID-19 pandemic has changed sex offender behavior

Researchers at the University of Birmingham are investigating how sex offenders have changed their behavior in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.

5 Jan 2021

Self-control in childhood may help set people up for healthy midlife aging

Self-control, the ability to contain one's own thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and to work toward goals with a plan, is one of the personality traits that makes a child ready for school. And, it turns out, ready for life as well.

5 Jan 2021

Non-invasive technique can provide accurate prognosis in unresponsive brain injury patients

Assessing the ability of unresponsive patients with severe brain injury to understand what is being said to them could yield important insights into how they might recover, according to new research.

5 Jan 2021

Looking to the future will help safeguard mental wellbeing during future Covid-19 lockdowns

Practicing gratitude and looking to the future will help safeguard our mental wellbeing during future Covid-19 lockdowns, a new study in the Journal of Positive Psychology reports.

5 Jan 2021

Computer simulation can help gauge the presence, severity of behavioral problems

The introduction of computer simulation to the identification of symptoms in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has potential to provide an additional objective tool to gauge the presence and severity of behavioral problems, Ohio State University researchers suggest in a new publication.

3 Jan 2021

Anesthesia and sleep have surprisingly similar effects on brain activity, finds study

What happens in the brain when our conscious awareness fades during general anesthesia and normal sleep? Finnish scientists studied this question with novel experimental designs and functional brain imaging.

29 Dec 2020

Brain scans predict posttraumatic stress disorder following mild TBI

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric disorder brought on by physical and/or psychological trauma. How its symptoms, including anxiety, depression and cognitive disturbances arise remains incompletely understood and unpredictable.

29 Dec 2020

Study reveals how our brains track where we and others go

As COVID cases rise, physically distancing yourself from other people has never been more important. Now a new UCLA study reveals how your brain navigates places and monitors someone else in the same location.

23 Dec 2020

New study sheds light on the psychology of holiday rituals

In the midst of the raging coronavirus pandemic, we're faced with agonizing decisions about whether to forgo treasured holiday rituals.

22 Dec 2020

Cannabis use dampens physiological response to stress in female rats

Female rats that inhaled vaporized cannabis daily for a month developed a blunted physiological response to stress, according to a new study by Washington State University researchers.

22 Dec 2020

Study could help prevent HIV/AIDS and pregnancy among South African adolescent girls

An important new finding by University of Cincinnati researchers could help slow the transmission of HIV/AIDS and reduce pregnancies among adolescent girls in rural South Africa.

22 Dec 2020

Study examines effects of social density and intention to vaccinate against COVID-19

Concerns over infecting others play a greater role in people's willingness to be vaccinated in sparsely populated areas than dense urban ones, according to newly published findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States.

21 Dec 2020

Brain tissue analysis may help explain enduring mysteries about PTSD

A post-mortem analysis of brain tissue from people who had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may help explain enduring mysteries about the disorder, such as why women are more susceptible to it and whether a dampened immune system response plays a role in dealing with stress, a team headed by Yale University researchers has found.

21 Dec 2020

Study examines how masks disrupt facial perception

The identification of people wearing masks has often presented a unique challenge during the pandemic. A new study by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel and York University in Canada reveals the impact of this predicament and its potentially significant repercussions.

21 Dec 2020

Researchers use a video game to identify and evaluate the degree of ADHD

Adapting a traditional endless runner video game and using a raccoon as the protagonist, researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, in its Spanish acronym), among other institutions, have developed a platform that allows the identification and evaluation of the degree of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents.

21 Dec 2020

Study may lead to new therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder

In our attempts to de-clutter our busy minds and make room for new, often more productive thoughts, people tap an array of different approaches. Which works best, and how does each strategy distinctly impact the brain?

21 Dec 2020

Scientists create COVID-19 guidebooks based on wisdom from patients, caregivers

No one likes to venture into a new city or country without a map or guidebook. But that's what having COVID-19 has felt like to people with the disease - and to the family and friends who are caring for them throughout their journey.

21 Dec 2020

University of Ottawa earns 10 Canada research chairs covering a broad scope of subjects

The University of Ottawa has earned a total of 10 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) covering a broad scope of subjects, from the exploration of disruptive impacts of stress on higher brain functions to the need to preserve Indigenous traditional cultural memories, and emerging computing technologies that pave the way to smart cities.

18 Dec 2020

Healthcare workers can develop severe mental health problems after COVID-19

Researchers at the University of Ottawa have found the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have particularly impacted healthcare professionals and their sleep, putting these frontline workers at risk of severe future mental health problems.

17 Dec 2020