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U.S. Kids Are Falling Behind Global Competition, but Brain Science Shows How to Catch Up
On vital measures that predict later success in school and life, small children in the U.S. do worse than kids in comparable countries. This distressing information comes from an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study of
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on neural correlates of psychopathology in adolescence, affect-dynamics and psychosis risk, estimation of treatment effects, well-being and psychopathology, health-service-psychology training, social-media use and depression, negative information and anxiety and depression, drinking variables following college graduation, and alcohol and sexual decisions.
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M.R.I.s Are Finding Connections Between Our Brain Activity and Psychology
In March, neuroscientists and psychiatrists from the School of Medicine at Washington University, St. Louis, along with colleagues elsewhere, published a study in the journal Nature that sparked widespread discussion in their fields. Researchers, the study noted
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on anger, attentional control in PTSD, factors on psychopathology, perception in schizophrenia and autism, publication of research with minoritized groups, well-being and cognition, perseverative thought, and adolescents’ technology use.
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Careers Up Close: Yakeel Quiroz on Cross-Cultural Alzheimer’s Research
This professor of psychiatry and neurology leads a longitudinal biomarker study of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
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How Music Can Literally Heal the Heart
In a maverick method, nephrologist Michael Field taught medical students to decipher different heart murmurs through their stethoscopes, trills, grace notes, and decrescendos to describe the distinctive sounds of heart valves snapping closed, and blood ebbing through
