Psychology / Psychiatry Stories
- When it seems difficult to find a romantic partner, we humans are more likely to go for broke.
- Personality dwells in the frontoparietal network of the brain.
- Just as pediatricians use growth charts, psychiatrists might create maturity charts for a child’s brain and look for abnormalities in mental development.
- Under the influence of LSD, people’s brains show increased global connectivity, which in turn alters their sense of self.
- Violent video games desensitize us so much that they take away our ability to feel guilty: study.
- Since last September, 101 people, including 11 in one day, have attempted suicide in the isolated Canadian community of Attawapiskat.
- People became physiologically aroused when asked to touch the genitals of a robot, though not when touching its hands and feet.
- LSD causes decreased activity in the default mode network, which is active when you daydream or think about the past.
- Serotonin research on simple fruit flies might help illuminate the biological mechanisms underlying anxiety.
- Women genetically predisposed to schizophrenia are more likely to have their first child at either an early age or a later age.
- The genes underlying autism influence a range of traits that many people express, even if they're not considered to have the disorder.
- Clonazepam, a tranquilizer prescribed for seizures and anxiety, might reduce autistic symptoms in Jacobsen syndrome patients.