Category: Education
Moody people adapt better
A new theory published November 3 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences argues that mood draws on experiences and can, in fact, help us quickly adapt to changes in our environment. According to the new theory, as people learn from experiences […]
People use smartphones for five hours a day
People use their smartphones for an average of five hours a day or about a third of the time they are awake. People also check it about 85 times a day, research suggests. The study in the journal PLOS ONE […]
Method diagnoses Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms
Researchers at Gothenburg University developed a reference method to identify Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms appear now became an international standard. It will now be used to diagnose the disease worldwide. After decades of research, Henrik Zetterberg and Kaj Blennow at […]
Sleepwalkers don’t feel pain
Sleepwalkers don’t feel pain when they’re injured while asleep. Most of them aren’t even woken by an injury and only feel pain when they wake up the morning after. A study shows that sleepwalkers were nearly 4 times more likely […]
Route-learning changes brain tissue
Carnegie Mellon University scientists discovered that learning direction can change the brain. Published in NeuroImage, Tim Keller and Marcel Just show for the first time that brief navigation training changes a person’s brain tissue and improves how that changed tissue […]
Men prefer smart women—from a distance
A new study found that men say they prefer smart women, but are intimidated or less attracted when they interact with smart women face-to-face. “We found that men preferred women who are smarter than them in psychologically distant situations. Men […]
Male and female brains look similar
Gender stereotypes don’t extend to the brain. Researchers prove that male and female brains look pretty much the same. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science researchers debunked the belief that the hippocampus, a crucial part of the brain that […]
Follow your passion for a successful career
Should you pursue your passion or strive toward a secure living? A new Tel Aviv University study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology finds that the two objectives are not mutually exclusive — in fact, each feeds the other. […]
Early life stress fries brain’s reward circuits
A study shows that adults who are abused or neglected as children are almost twice as likely to experience depression. Researchers at Duke University and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio recruited 106 adolescents, between the […]
Nine-day sugar-free diet improved teens’ health
Reducing consumption of added sugar, even without reducing calories or losing weight, has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, including high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as nine days, according to a […]
