Moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy is risky too
...rles R. Goodlett, a professor in the department of psychology at Indiana University School of Medicine. "First, rat offspring of dams drinking the three-percent alcohol liquid diet had impairments in spatial working memory. Although this diet produced a peak blood alcohol level of 30 mg/dL, which is also well...Brain's method of creating mental images differs with the source of cues received
...erkeley. Hillis, now a post-doctoral researcher in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, worked on the r...h with Martin S. Banks, professor of optometry and psychology at UC Berkeley. "If the brain is taking in different sensory cues and combining them to create one ...Researchers find genes connected to seasonal reproductive clock in hamsters
...and a post-doctoral fellow in psychology at Ohio State University. The study was published in the Dec. 10 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. ...Binge drinking among Jewish and non-Jewish college students
...director of clinical training in the department of psychology at Syracuse University, believes that the answer may lie in the design of a fundamental measure - defining religious commitment by service attendance. "Perhaps it would have been more useful to define types of services attended and their meaning to t...Essay on genes and behavior prompts culture clash in academic journal
...om Ehrlich and Feldman's perspective, evolutionary psychology is little more than a series of these ''just-so'' ...tic reductionisms of 'evolutionary' or 'Darwinian' psychology - possibly because, whatever else it may be, H. sapiens is a storytelling creature, and such account...New Northwestern center targets brain disorders
...rator, Jaak Panksepp, an emeritus professor in the psychology department at Bowling Green State University, joined the Falk Center as head of its affective neuroscience research program. The Falk Center puts state-of-the-art gene chip technology -- the same used to discover the glyxins and the brain tumor the...... engineering and computer science and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. "But for a number of reasons, I don't believe that we are anywhere near that stage right now." In the 1960s, Holland created the field of genetic algorithms, a process in which computers solve problems by mimicking biol...Cognitive therapy for schizophrenia: Hope for those whom drugs havent helped
...ause," said Philippa Garety, professor of clinical psychology at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine and the Institute of Psychiatry and head of psychology for the local South London mental health services. According to Garety, cognitive behavioural therap...Dyslexic children`s brains operate more like those of normal readers following training
...d in the brains of these children,`` said Stanford psychology Professor John Gabrieli, one of the study`s authors. ``The intervention, although substantial, only covered eight weeks. One note of optimism about the study is that such a limited intervention can have a substantial effect on reading scores.`` Brain...Rutgers researcher advances understanding of attention deficit disorder and schizophrenia
...alks to another, said Stephen Hanson, chair of the psychology department at Rutgers-Newark. We are one of only a handful of groups of cognitive researchers probing into this area of brain dynamics by employing EEG and fMRI. Scientists hope this research will likely lead to new approaches to cognitive malfuncti...New findings could lead to higher resolution functional MRIs
...t in the study, is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley. "All diseases begin at the cellular level," said Ralph Freeman, UC Berkeley professor of vision science and optometry and principal investigator of the study. "If we can eventually get a better look at what is occurring at the cellul...Redheaded women respond better to painkilling drug
...lead researcher Jeffrey Mogil, a McGill University psychology professor, and collaborators in the United States. Results of their study are to be released today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (article #03-0053). While we believe pain is the same in all women of all hair colours,...UNC scientists find important new clue to puzzle of addictive behavior
...said Dr. Regina M. Carelli, associate professor of psychology at UNC. "Rather than just having a pharmacological effect, dopamine increases in response to cues that have a learned association to cocaine."Our work indicates that just the anticipation of receiving cocaine may cause significant increases in dopami...Research shows cocaine 'reward' picture more complicated than scientists thought
... Linda Dyksta, William Rand Kenan Jr. professor of psychology and pharmacology and dean of the graduate school at UNC, presented the team's findings. Other scientists involved in the work included Drs. Marc G. Caron, James B. Duke professor, and Raul Gainetdinov, assistant research professor, both in cell biolo...Odors summon emotion and influence behavior, new study says
...ccording to Rachel S. Herz, assistant professor of psychology at Brown, who will present her research at the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences at 8 a.m. Sunday, April 13, 2003, in Sarasota, Fla. Sixty-three female undergraduates at Brown University participated in the two-pronged stu...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Awards 2003
... in our environment are represented at a cognition psychology level. He found out that, unlike our environment, ... of memory and motor activity. Dirk Kerzel studied psychology and linguistics at Bielefeld University and received his doctorate at Munich University, where he al...DFG sets up twelve new research training groups
...three levels of analysis: The level of educational psychology addresses issues such as learning mechanisms of pupils. At the level of teaching, didactical aspects of imparting natural science contents are examined. The level of educational research concentrates on aspects such as school organisation. The aim of...Memory for music: Musicians don't have to hear themselves perform after they learn a song
...of the study and professor of psychology at Ohio State University. Specifically, Palmer said the findings cast doubt on the universality of matching theories theories that state memory...DFG to establish nine new collaborative research centres
...ropean and non-European languages, as well as from psychology and computer linguistics will work together within the scope of this topic. This approach aims to develop new models which describe the role of information structure in human cognition and in the structure of language. This will contribute significan...Research shows similarities between infants learning to talk, birds learning to sing
...rning to sing," said Meredith West, a professor of psychology and biology at IU. She collaborated on the article..., and Michael Goldstein, an assistant professor of psychology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. "This research takes advantage of infants' socialit...