Behavioral Neuroscience

A Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study shows a mind-body class elective for medical students helps increase their self-compassion and ability to manage thoughts and tasks more effectively...

Kay Toon, Chartered Psychologist and author of the best selling Breaking Free books, has just released a pioneering App for smart phones "k2n The Journey Begins". This is the only App available which aims to help the one in four adults, who have suffered sexual abuse in childhood, overcome their problems. "k2n The Journey Begins" (free) is the first App in the Breaking Free series...

Late-life depression is associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia, Alzheimer's disease and, most predominantly, vascular dementia, according to the results of a new meta-analysis published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry...

Americans are over-diagnosed and over-treated for depression, according to a new study conducted at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study examines adults with clinician-identified depression and individuals who experienced major depressive episodes within a 12-month period. It found that when assessed for major depressive episodes using a structured interview, only 38...

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has issued a new report titled Prevention of Bullying in Schools, Colleges, and Universities: Research Report and Recommendations.* The report results from the work of a blue-ribbon AERA task force mandated to prepare and present practical short-term and long-term recommendations to address bullying of children and youth...

The mantra that quality is more important than quantity is true when considering how social relationships influence depression, say U-M researchers in a new study...

If chronic stress is weighing down your problem-solving skills, self-affirmation may give your skills a boost, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by David Creswell and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University...

Rates of suicide among middle-aged Americans have risen significantly in the past 10 years, causing concern that a generation of baby boomers who have dealt with a lifetime of economic worry, as well as easy access to prescription pills, may be more susceptible to harming themselves. The finding came from the CDC's journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...

A pile of dirty dishes looms in the kitchen. It's your spouse's night to wash, but you know he or she has had a long day so you grab a sponge and step up to the plate. It's just one of the minor daily sacrifices you make in the name of love...

A greater percentage of people with psychological problems or who have suffered from domestic violence undergo cosmetic surgery compared to the rest of the population. A team from the Institute of Education, UK, suggests that in some cases, patients' psychological conditions could get worse rather than better following cosmetic surgery...

The first article in a landmark series to help health care workers and providers, donors, and decision makers understand the importance of including mental health care in global health programs is being published in this week's PLOS Medicine...

New research from experts within the University of Minnesota School of Nursing has found teen girls at high risk for pregnancy reported being significantly less likely to participate in social bullying after participating in an 18-month preventive intervention program...

Subfertile women who conceive through assisted reproduction are more likely to experience a greater traumatic impact following early pregnancy loss compared with women who conceive naturally, suggests a new study published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology...

Patients who have suffered from domestic violence, or who have underlying psychological issues, are more likely to undergo cosmetic surgery. Their conditions may also actually worsen rather than improve following surgery...

Body dysmorphic disorder is a disabling but often misunderstood psychiatric condition in which people perceive themselves to be disfigured and ugly, even though they look normal to others. New research at UCLA shows that these individuals have abnormalities in the underlying connections in their brains. Dr...

School violence is a very important social issue world-wide. It poses a significant threat to the health, achievement, and well-being of students...

Frontiers in Psychology Short-term attentional perseveration associated with real-life creative achievement What makes some people more creative than others? Psychologists have suggested that creativity partly depends on a person's ability to continuously switch attention between the details and the bigger picture of a given task...

Researchers at Wayne State University, in collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technology, recently published a study advising clinical gerontologists in the field to be aware of older adults' needs for assessment of financial exploitation or its potential when working with highly vulnerable individuals...

Probiotics could emerge as a treatment plan to manage hepatic encephalopathy (HE) therapy after a new study announced at the International Liver Congress™ 2013 found they significantly reduced development of the notoriously difficult-to-treat disease...

Children who are exposed to negative parenting - including abuse, neglect but also overprotection - are more likely to experience childhood bullying by their peers, according to a meta-analysis of 70 studies of more than 200,000 children...