ProfessionMar 27, 2025
Everyday Ethics: Applying Different Approaches to Problem-Solving
Ethics is a fundamental part of everyday living and should guide our decisions, behaviors, and interactions in both personal and ...
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Cognitive PsychologyMar 27, 2025
Navigating Life in a Post-Cognitive World
In a recent series of posts, I've explored a rather provocative landscape—moving from traditional thinking about cognition to a ...
Sport & PerformanceMar 27, 2025
Psychologist reveals why football chants are an essential part of the game
More than one in 10 football fans admit their favourite chants are the ones poking fun at their own team’s misfortune.
ResearchMar 27, 2025
Purdue Psychological Sciences propelled alumnus to over three decades of award-winning research
When Abraham Tesser (MS ’65, PhD ’67) was about to embark on his graduate studies in the Purdue University Department of ...
Mental HealthMar 27, 2025
Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students
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CounselingMar 27, 2025
Master’s In Counseling: Everything You Need To Know
With five years of experience as a writer and editor in the higher education and career development space, Ilana has a passion ...
PolicyMar 26, 2025
Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment
SACRAMENTO — President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving ...
Weight managementMar 26, 2025
Do Weight-Loss Medications Affect Mental Health?
In late 2017, the FDA approved the first and best-known GLP-1 receptor agonist, which you’ll probably know as “Ozempic.” ...
NeuropsychologyMar 26, 2025
Glucose revealed as a master regulator of tissue regeneration
Glucose is life's main energy source. But a new study reveals a surprising role as a master manipulator of tissue maturation, hinting at its importance in diabetes and cancer.
Cognitive PsychologyMar 26, 2025
How movement affects the way the brain processes sound and sight
A research team has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes vision and hearing differently depending on whether we are still or in motion. The study provides new insights into how movement alters…
Cognitive PsychologyMar 26, 2025
Adulting is hard on the heart: Teen to young adulthood is a critical time to address risk
Many youth have heart disease risk factors by their late teens, and preventing or addressing these risks early may reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease in the future, according to a new scientific…
AddictionMar 26, 2025
Study identifies Shisa7 gene as key driver in heroin addiction
Researchers have found a unique molecular signature and genes in the orbitofrontal cortex associated with heroin-seeking behavior. A preclinical rodent model implicated a gene called Shisa7 as the key predictor. A new…
Health PsychologyMar 26, 2025
Highly educated people face steeper mental declines after stroke
Stroke survivors who have attended some level of higher education may face even steeper mental declines, according to a study. The findings suggest that attending higher education may enable people to retain greater…
Clinical PsychologyMar 26, 2025
Scientists discover why obesity takes away the pleasure of eating
Why do some people lose the joy of eating, even when surrounded by irresistible foods? UC Berkeley researchers have uncovered a surprising brain mechanism that explains this paradox. They found that a high-fat diet…
CounselingMar 26, 2025
What is credit counseling?
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Family & RelationshipsMar 26, 2025
More people in the U.S. identify as LGBTQ+ than ever before
Every year, Gallup collects data as a part of the Gallup Poll Social Series. This series includes twelve different topics that researchers conduct interviews on over the course of each month. Participants comprise adults…
Structural family therapyMar 26, 2025
Faith-Sensitive Therapy
For many individuals seeking mental health support, faith isn't merely a cultural practice or affiliation—it represents a ...
ResearchMar 26, 2025
MusiCares and Amber Health Partner for Mental Health Study on Touring Artists & Crew
Launching next month, the study will collect critical data on mental health risk factors and evaluate the benefits of on-demand ...
TraumaMar 26, 2025
Is there a radical new way to cure PTSD?
A relatively new treatment addresses "the root cause of anxiety, depression, PTSD, and Long COVID symptoms," according to the ...
Clinical PsychologyMar 26, 2025
How Does Psychedelic Therapy Work?
As a psychologist who has served as a therapist and site co-principal investigator in clinical trials of MDMA and psilocybin, I'm ...
Psychotic and severe mental illnessMar 26, 2025
A Psychologist’s Journey Through Psychotic Depression
I tried to hand myself in at the police station. My voice trembled as I stammered out the words—I was a fraud in my Ph.D., a ...
Mental HealthMar 26, 2025
Overlooked aspects of mental health
Mental health remains one of the most critical yet misunderstood challenges of our time. While awareness has grown in recent ...
Family & RelationshipsMar 25, 2025
Study explores how characteristics of communications networks affect development of shared social identity, group performance
Researchers explored how the characteristics of communication networks in groups (i.e., density and centralization) affected the development of shared social identity and, as a result, group performance. The study's…
NeuropsychologyMar 25, 2025
Could an arthritis drug unlock lasting relief from epilepsy and seizures? Promising results in mice
A drug typically prescribed for arthritis halts brain-damaging seizures in mice that have a condition like epilepsy, according to researchers. If the drug proves viable for human patients, it would be the first to…
Forensic PsychologyMar 25, 2025
VR crime scene tech
Researchers presented advances shaping the world of forensics, from research that could improve how forensic scientists estimate a person's age at death, to technology demos of CSIxR -- a virtual reality (VR) application…
Mental HealthMar 25, 2025
ADHD may be associated with an increased risk of dementia
An adult brain affected by attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD) presents modifications similar to those observed in individuals suffering from dementia. These are the findings of a study which…
Cognitive PsychologyMar 25, 2025
What does 'that' mean in 'Did you see that?'
What goes through your mind when someone asks 'Did you see that?' A study shows that children and adults process ambiguous information like 'that' differently. While children focus more on the literal meaning, adults use…
Clinical PsychologyMar 25, 2025
Recognizing and treating an eating disorder
In the United States, eating disorders are the second most deadly mental health issue (behind opioid use disorder). And they are ...
Clinical PsychologyMar 25, 2025
When Psychotherapy Addresses You Rather Than Your Problems
Years ago, as I perched eagerly at my graduate school desk in preparation for my career, listening to lectures on therapy, I ...
PersonalityMar 25, 2025
Psychopaths experience pain differently, even when their bodies say otherwise
Psychopathy has long been associated with murderers, notorious criminals, and the griping true crime stories that dominate ...