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New evidence of a critical neuroplasticity period in the frontal brain during adolescence

In a paper published in Progress in Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine neuroscientists described compelling new evidence of a critical neuroplasticity period in the frontal brain region during adolescence, a time when major mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia emerge and risk-taking behavior peaks.

8 Nov 2022

Daylight Saving Time may also suit morning risers just fine, study finds

Night owls may be looking forward to falling back into autumn standard time but a new study from the University of Ottawa has found Daylight Saving Time may also suit morning types just fine.

4 Nov 2022

Study analyzes the impact of children’s mental health on the national workforce

As the American economy has undergone rapid and dramatic change, so too has America's workforce. Trending terms, such as "the great resignation" and "quiet quitting," have been coined as we seek to better understand workplace challenges across the country. There have been many contributing factors reported to be driving these issues, but new research shows that the pediatric mental health crisis is a significant and surprising contributor among working parents in America's workforce.

3 Nov 2022

Sophisticated tool helps measure exposure levels to PFAS

A novel metric that estimates our "burden," or cumulative exposure, to a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that we encounter in everyday life with potentially adverse health impacts, has been created by a team of researchers at Mount Sinai.

2 Nov 2022

Sleep Research Society's new position statement advocates the elimination of daylight saving time

With the annual change from daylight saving time to standard time approaching on Sunday, Nov. 6, a new position statement from the Sleep Research Society is advocating for the elimination of daylight saving time and the adoption of permanent standard time.

1 Nov 2022

First evidence of a link between self-control and intelligence in birds

A study has found that Eurasian jays can pass a version of the 'marshmallow test' – and those with the greatest self-control also score the highest on intelligence tests.

31 Oct 2022

Vacant lot greening can reduce community-level crime and violence, research shows

Communities that are engaged in cleaning, mowing and repurposing vacant spaces are likely to experience greater reductions in violence and crime than neighborhoods that do not participate in these activities, according to new research led by the University of Michigan.

28 Oct 2022

Research helps to improve the understanding of virtual romance

An international team of researchers has published a paper introducing the concept of romantic anthropomorphism, which involves giving a non-human agent human-like characteristics in a romantic context.

28 Oct 2022

Newborn hearing assessment can predict neurophysiological development at 12 months

Portuguese researchers have proven that hearing assessment in early-age infants can help predict milestones and early detection of neurodevelopmental disorder markers.

28 Oct 2022

Seeing or hearing birds linked with an improvement in mental wellbeing

New research from King's College London has found that seeing or hearing birds is associated with an improvement in mental wellbeing that can last up to eight hours.

27 Oct 2022

Early temperamental and neurocognitive risk factors may play a role in future anxiety, depression

A recent imaging study led by a scientist at The University of Texas at Dallas has identified early risk factors linked to children's temperament and a neural process that could foretell whether an individual might develop depression and anxiety in adolescence and early adulthood.

26 Oct 2022

Study tracks individuals' risk or resilience to mental health disruptions during the COVID-19 Pandemic

When the world shut down in March of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people the world over experienced profound psychological stress to varying degrees.

26 Oct 2022

States opting out of a federal program that tracks teen behavior as youth mental health worsens

As the covid-19 pandemic worsened a mental health crisis among America's young people, a small group of states quietly withdrew from the nation's largest public effort to track concerning behaviors in high school students.

26 Oct 2022

During sleep, the hippocampus and neocortex interact in ways that are key to memory formation

Using a neural network model, Penn neuroscientist Anna Schapiro and colleagues found that as the body moves between REM and slow-wave sleep cycles, the hippocampus and neocortex interact in ways that are key to memory formation.

25 Oct 2022

Study sheds light on the effect of anxiety disorders on vaccine hesitancy

Individuals who deal with anxiety are no less hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine compared to those without anxiety, according to new research.

25 Oct 2022

Posing a smile can brighten your mood, researchers say

When we're happy, we smile. The corners of our mouths move out and up, our cheeks lift, and the skin around our eyes crinkles. But does it work the other way? Can posing our muscles in a smile brighten our mood?

20 Oct 2022

Scientists pinpoint a large number of genes associated with dyslexia

Scientists have for the first time pinpointed a large number of genes that are reliably associated with dyslexia.

20 Oct 2022

Study shows how brain's sensitivity to regret may be altered in mood disorders

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have learned that the way the brain processes the complex emotion of regret may be linked to an individual's ability to cope with stress, and altered in psychiatric disorders like depression.

19 Oct 2022

Statewide restrictions during the pandemic not linked to worse mental health

Despite concerns that stay-at-home orders and other government efforts to stem the spread of COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic would cause lasting harm to people's mental health, research published by the American Psychological Association found that state restrictions in the first six months of the pandemic were not related to worse mental health.

17 Oct 2022

The temporal dynamics of variables related to compliance with behavioral measures during the COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers assessed the alterations in compliance with behavioral measures overtime during the COVID-19 pandemic.

17 Oct 2022

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New evidence of a critical neuroplasticity period in the frontal brain during adolescence

Daylight Saving Time may also suit morning risers just fine, study finds

Study analyzes the impact of children’s mental health on the national workforce

Sophisticated tool helps measure exposure levels to PFAS

Sleep Research Society's new position statement advocates the elimination of daylight saving time

First evidence of a link between self-control and intelligence in birds

Vacant lot greening can reduce community-level crime and violence, research shows

Research helps to improve the understanding of virtual romance

Newborn hearing assessment can predict neurophysiological development at 12 months

Seeing or hearing birds linked with an improvement in mental wellbeing

Early temperamental and neurocognitive risk factors may play a role in future anxiety, depression

Study tracks individuals' risk or resilience to mental health disruptions during the COVID-19 Pandemic

States opting out of a federal program that tracks teen behavior as youth mental health worsens

During sleep, the hippocampus and neocortex interact in ways that are key to memory formation

Study sheds light on the effect of anxiety disorders on vaccine hesitancy

Posing a smile can brighten your mood, researchers say

Scientists pinpoint a large number of genes associated with dyslexia

Study shows how brain's sensitivity to regret may be altered in mood disorders

Statewide restrictions during the pandemic not linked to worse mental health

The temporal dynamics of variables related to compliance with behavioral measures during the COVID-19 pandemic

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