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Probiotics are not new, but their status as a nutritional buzzword is. Most folks have now heard and seen the term countless times in commercials and advertisements, as yogurt, dietary supplement, natural food product, and even cosmetic companies promote their...

Would-be donors skip giving when offered the chance to show public support for charities in social media, a new study from the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business finds.

Math video games can enhance students' motivation to learn, but it may depend on how students play, researchers at New York University and the City University of New York have found in a study of middle-schoolers.

Video gaming causes increases in the brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills.

Dialectical behavior therapy , a psychotherapeutic strategy that has been used in borderline personality disorder, may also be useful in the setting of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Working with mice genetically engineered to display symptoms of schizophrenia, neuroscientists at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT have uncovered a faulty brain mechanism that may underlie schizophrenia and...

A paper published in the current issue of psychotherapy and psychosomatics provides a new hypothesis concerned with the role of aldosterone in combat PTSD.

A paper published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics provides new findings on the role of psychotherapy in regulating serotonin receptors.

Young women with critical, over-involved mothers likelier to have poor social skills and disordered eating attitudes.

If you got beat up by a bully on your walk home from school every day, you would probably become very afraid of the spot where you usually met him. However, if the bully moved out of town, you would...

Most youths are concerned about other people’s feelings, they feel bad or guilty when they have done something wrong and they adhere to social rules. A small group of youths, however, does not.

Scientists at UC San Francisco are reporting that they have found a way to reverse some of the negative effects of aging on the brain, using a video game designed to improve cognitive control.

What do lotus flowers, soap bubbles, and aerated chocolate have in common?

A stressful pregnancy might be the last thing a future mother needs, but it is to her unborn baby that this stress spells real trouble.

Even mild stress can thwart therapeutic measures to control emotions, a team of neuroscientists at New York University has found.