Wolf Prize In Medicine Awarded To Kandel, Columbia's Pioneer Of Memory Research
...ologyto behavior. He has shown how the methods of psychology can be merged withthose of biology to endow the study of behavior and learning with renewed vigorand explanatory power. His work has influenced the way both biologists andpsychologists now think about these processes." Born in Vienna, Profes...New Clues To Evolution Of Human Brain
...human. Susan Courtney , anassistant professor of psychology ,recently reported that she had pinpointed the place where the human brainstockpiles information about spatial relationships for short-term use. It was not where anyone expected. Until recently, many scientists argued that storage depots for short-te......ers. Sean O'Donnell, the UW assistant professor of psychology who studied the waspsin the cloud forests of Costa Rica, believes more examples of male dominanceamong social insects will be found as researchers focus on the tropics wheremost species live. In the past, researchers, who primarily live in temperatez...New Findings On Primitive Shark Contradicts Current View Of Jaw Evolution
...rs, even though we may not want to admit it. "The psychology ofevolution is interesting," he said. "People don't mind being called a primateor a mammal, but they don't like being called a fish." With furtherinvestigations of fossil fish, vertebrate paleontologists may find themselvesrewriting the early chapt...Vanderbilt Researcher: Human Brain Has Great Sense Of Timing
...ng to the same object," said Blake, a professor of psychology andinvestigator for Vanderbilt's John F. Kennedy C...s." Blake conducts his research - an interface of psychology and neuroscience - atthe Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, founded in 1989 with a grant from theNat...Stress Increases Blood Chemical Related To Heart Disease
...rine Stoney, author of the study and a professorof psychology at Ohio State University. "We knew that psychological stress plays a role in cardiovascular disease. These findings suggests homocysteine may be one mechanism for the stresseffect." The study will be published May 14 in the journal Life Sciences.Homo......of USA. According to Lu, an assistant professor of psychology in the USC College ofLetters, Arts and Sciences, researchers have found that human motion perceptionis served by three parallel brain mechanisms. These include an extremelysensitive "first order" system that depends on cues from varying brightness, ...Brain releases marijuana-like substance in response to pain, study finds
...es are ineffective, according toJ. Michael Walker, psychology professor and lead researcher. "There are some types of pain that do not respond well to currenttreatments," said Walker. "The fact that you have different modulatory systems that are effective for differenttypes of pain may offer hope."......ed by graduatestudent Princy Quadros and assistant psychology professor Christine Wagner, willbe presented today at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Miami, Fla. Scientists have known for nearly two decades that there are structural andneurobiological differences between the brains of males and fem...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
... diversity: in addition to questions pertaining to psychology in general, Klaus Fiedler has also been concerned with socio-psychological topics such as the links between speech and social perception, and with processes of social information processing. In addition to this, he has been investigating how the aims...Study suggests newer oral contraceptives may be less harmful for women smokers
...and Gynecology, a medical journal. Authors include psychology graduate student Patricia Straneva and Dr. Susan Girdler, assistant professor of psychiatry. The UNC-CH study involved extensive testing of physiologic reactions of healthy women taking two different types of oral contraceptives, including 23 smoker...This is your adolescent brain on alcohol
... of alcohol, lead author Sandra A. Brown, chief of psychology at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, has designed and is directing "Project Op...Study of rats brains indicates brain continues to grow after puberty
...nice M. Juraska, a neuroscientist and professor of psychology at the UI. "This study is part of a rethinking on the growth of the brain. It is becoming clear that the corpus callosum changes in size at later ages than previously believed." By 120 days of age (about in the mid-20s in humans), the area analyzed...The power of the mother-child bond
..." said Norman E. Spear, distinguished professor of psychology at Binghamton University and one of the study's le... added Juan Carlos Molina, co-author, professor of psychology at the University of Cordoba, and senior research scientist at the Instituto de Investigacion Medica...Alcohol and thiamine deficiency together: a dangerous combination?
...iency," explained Philip J. Langlais, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, professor of neurosciences at the University of California - San Diego, and lead author of the study. "We wanted to see if you took thiamine deficiency and combined it with chronic alcohol intake, would you then create...Some alcoholics may self-medicate with carbohydrates between drinks
...ors," said David J. Drobes, assistant professor of psychology at the Medical University of South Carolina. "Research is now beginning to uncover specific genetic factors and neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to alcoholism. This study helps us to understand how disturbances in one of the important neu...Discovery shows how brain 'fills in blanks' to help us see
... us," says Allison Sekuler, associate professor of psychology at U of T and one of the study's senior authors. "...ith," says Patrick Bennett, associate professor of psychology at U of T and the study's other senior author. "This filling in gives some consistency and continuit...Cocaine use while pregnant may cause ADHD
...searcher Barbara J. Strupp, associate professor of psychology and of nutritional sciences at Cornell, says the findings can be applied to humans. "Although prenatal cocaine exposure does not seem to affect most areas of cognitive function, the deficits in attention are consistent and lasting -- seen in adult a...Gene identified that may play role in psychological disorders
...t, a study co-author and an associate professor of psychology at Ohio State University. The study appears in the new issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published June 14. The 5-HTT gene is responsible for regulating the chemical serotonin, which helps transmit messages in the brain. The peopl......ed "selfish gene" and other tenets of evolutionary psychology in his wide-ranging new book, Human Natures: Genes, Cultures and the Human Prospect (Shearwater Books/Island Press, Washington, D.C.). In this well-documented book, Ehrlich discusses a number of controversial issues: why people evolved an upright pos...