Forensic PsychologyJul 26, 2024
In conversation with Glenda Liell: Bias in Forensic Assessment
Glenda Liell is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist with a wide range of experience in roles across HMPPS and the criminal justice ...
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Mental HealthJul 25, 2024
The Mental and Physical Health Benefits of Volunteering
It's probably a safe bet that most of us have volunteered our time, talents, sweat, or ideas at least a few times to support a ...
Forensic PsychologyJul 24, 2024
AI model identifies certain breast tumor stages likely to progress to invasive cancer
A new machine-learning model can identify the stage of disease in ductal carcinoma in situ, a type of preinvasive tumor that can sometimes progress to a deadly form of breast cancer. This could help clinicians avoid…
ProfessionJul 24, 2024
The Paramedic Profession in a Time of Changes and Challenges
Tracy Nicholls began her career in the mid-1990s with the now East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, working on patient ...
EntrepreneursJul 24, 2024
The Unique Mental Health Stressors of Women Entrepreneurs
Personal and professional success are two sides of the same coin. After 25 years as a licensed psychotherapist and entrepreneur ...
Family & RelationshipsJul 24, 2024
My Boyfriend Masturbates to Photos of My Friend. What Do I Do?
Recently on the blog we’ve been answering a few listener and reader questions, including topics such as how to navigate sex when one partner is paralyzed and how body modifications have been historically linked to queer…
Sport & PerformanceJul 24, 2024
Taking breaks from competing is key to athletic resilience—a sports psychologist explains
In sports psychology, elite athletes are often said to have two identities—a "self" identity (who they are overall) and an ...
Social PsychologyJul 24, 2024
What do genes have to do with psychology? They likely influence your behavior more than you realize
Whether genes are able to compromise between their competing interests can have consequences for development. pressureUA/iStock ...
Mental HealthJul 23, 2024
Is there a connection between long COVID and anxiety?
Research shows there may be a link between long COVID and long-term mental health conditions, such as anxiety. Long COVID defines ...
Sport & PerformanceJul 23, 2024
Psychological safety in times of turbulence and uncertainty
In times of chaos — like when the world seems to be passing through a turbulent phase — it is normal for people to look for ...
Health PsychologyJul 23, 2024
How does the brain respond to sleep apnea?
Nearly 40 million adults in the U.S. have sleep apnea, and more than 30 million of them use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine while sleeping. However, the machines tend to be expensive, clunky and…
Forensic PsychologyJul 23, 2024
Competency evaluation ordered for member of dangerous motorcycle gang
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A competency evaluation has been ordered for a member of ...
AI & TechnologyJul 22, 2024
New tools reveal neuropeptides, not neurotransmitters, encode danger in the brain
Scientists created new tools to study brain messenger proteins called neuropeptides in the brains of behaving animals, discovering they are the primary messengers in the fear circuit in mouse brains, and that multiple…
Mental HealthJul 22, 2024
Boosting fruit intake during midlife can ward off late-life blues
In a large Singapore cohort study involving over 13,000 participants spanning close to 20 years, higher consumption of fruits during midlife was found to be associated with lower odds of depressive symptoms at late-life.
Mental HealthJul 22, 2024
An over- or under-synchronized brain may predict psychosis
Is it possible to assess an individual's risk of psychosis? Identifying predictive markers is a key challenge in psychiatry. A team now shows that overly strong or weak interconnections between certain brain areas could…
Mental HealthJul 22, 2024
Bipolar disorder and alcohol: It's not as simple as 'self-medication'
Bipolar disorder and alcohol problems seem to go hand-in-hand, leading to a widespread belief that drinking acts as a kind of 'self medication' to ease bipolar's life-altering symptoms of mania, depression, anxiety…
AddictionJul 21, 2024
Executive Functions, Reward Systems and Addiction in Adolescents and Young Adults
Addiction and substance abuse among adolescents and young adults are significant public health concerns in the USA and worldwide ...
Positive PsychologyJul 19, 2024
Why We Should Focus on Positive Childhood Experiences
We’ve all heard of “adverse childhood experiences” (ACEs). Psychology has focused a large chunk of research on these ...
Mental HealthJul 19, 2024
Social anxiety can be limiting. There are ways to get relief.
“I enter a party and feel all eyes on me. My pulse quickens, my face burns and my stomach churns. Everybody must be judging me ...
TraumaJul 18, 2024
All About Trauma Therapy and How It Can Help
Trauma therapy is a broad term that describes a variety of psychotherapy approaches focused on helping you heal from traumatic ...
NeuropsychologyJul 17, 2024
Cognitive Testing: The Facts, Myths, and Value
Neuropsychological assessment, or cognitive testing, is the gold standard tool for measuring cognitive functions (or the ...
Forensic PsychologyJul 17, 2024
Improving identification of human remains using craniofacial superimposition
Researchers propose an improvement in the identification of human remains using craniofacial superimposition. The forensic identification technique is based on the analysis of a skull (post-mortem) and photographs of the…
Cognitive PsychologyJul 17, 2024
Cuttlefish can form false memories, too
During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must get put back…
Clinical PsychologyJul 17, 2024
Psilocybin generates psychedelic experience by disrupting brain network
Researchers report that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, destabilizes a critical network of brain areas involved in introspective thinking. The findings provide a neurobiological explanation for the…
Family & RelationshipsJul 17, 2024
Behind the Scenes at Lovehoney Group: An Interview With Elisabeth Neumann
When the Sex and Psychology team was in Berlin for our study abroad course earlier this year, we visited the Lovehoney Group for a tour and lecture to learn how sex toys and pleasure products are made. As part of this…
ProfessionJul 17, 2024
A look at the Texas mental health workforce shortage
Texas is in the midst of a mental health workforce shortage. But where is the state short? Today, 246 of Texas’ 254 counties ...
AddictionJul 17, 2024
Research shows protein isoform inhibitors may hold the key to making opioids safer
Researchers have identified a new way to make opioids safer, increasing the pain-relieving properties of opioids while decreasing unwanted side effects through the spinal inhibition of a Heat shock protein 90 isoform.
Mental HealthJul 17, 2024
Youth with conduct disorder show widespread differences in brain structure
The largest neuroimaging study of conduct disorder to date has revealed extensive changes in brain structure among young people with the disorder. The largest difference was a smaller area of the brain's outer layer…
PolicyJul 16, 2024
New mental health policy 'saves police officer time'
A new approach to dealing with calls involving mental health concerns is saving police time, one force has said. Under the Right ...
Mental HealthJul 15, 2024
What is the link between anxiety and fatigue?
Anxiety and fatigue can occur together. Anxiety can be a natural response to stress and is sometimes beneficial. However, having ...