K-State professor examines connections between food, culture and psychology in new book
... of the findings by Leon Rappoport, a professor of psychology at Kansas State University. In his recent book, "How We Eat: Appetite, Culture and the Psychology of Food," published in May by ECW Press, he addresses the way cultures define things as edible, food habits and ideologies, the origin of eating disorde...Study suggests interplay of gene, stress can predict depression
..., one of the paper's co-authors and a professor of psychology at UW-Madison. "If current trends continue, by the year 2020 depression will be the first cause of disease burden worldwide and, in the developed world, will be second only to heart disease." To begin to understand this pervasive mental illness, rese...An old, familiar love nest helps sexual success
...th Adkins-Regan, a professor in the departments of psychology and of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell. "Pavlovian conditioning has long been assumed to be adaptive. This study is the strongest evidence yet that Pavlovian sexual conditioning increases the reproductive success of animals, both male and female...Smaller food portions may explain the 'French paradox' of rich foods and a svelte population
...iovascular disease," said Paul Rozin, professor of psychology at Penn and lead author of a paper in the September issue of the journal Psychological Science. "However, recent studies suggest that the importance of fat intake as a risk factor has been greatly exaggerated. While the French eat more fat than Am...Non-judgmental intervention may help binge eaters overcome disorders
...often ambivalent about seeking treatment," said UW psychology doctoral student Erin Dunn. "Most people with eating disorders don't seek treatment on their own. They are indecisive about change and generally seek help when prompted through family, friends or a physician." Failure rates for treating eating dis...Alcohol's pharmacological properties, not smell or taste, reinforce its effects
..." added Jennifer D. Thomas, assistant professor of psychology at San Diego State University. "If an infant is exposed to the odor of alcohol in the environment, or the combined taste, odor and pharmacological effects of alcohol during fetal development or breast feeding, it is important to determine how this e...Grant of powerful computer to Rutgers-Newark will increase understanding of brain activity
... said Stephen Hanson, chairman of Rutgers-Newark's psychology department and director of the university's RUMBA ... RUMBA project. It will be linked with the Rutgers psychology department's newly acquired, highly powerful 28-node Opteron computer cluster and a fiber-channel da...Landmark study offers new information about breast cancer genes
...fessionals in both the science of genetics and the psychology of working with patients and families at risk for inherited disease. Today, there are approximately 28 institutions providing graduate training in genetic counseling and over 1,000 professionals in the field, about half of who are graduates of the Sa...New technique helps shed light on progression of dementia
...ad author and a professor of both neuroscience and psychology at Ohio State. The researchers injected into rats ... Craft and Courtney DeVries, all with Ohio State's psychology department, and John Bruno, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State. The researcher...Study finds new mothers are resistant to stress
...d by Professor Tracey Shors from the department of psychology and the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers, and graduate student Benedetta Leuner, found that female rats during the postpartum period are less anxious and more resistant to stress than females without offspring. The researc...Study unearths cliques in the food web
...fessor jointlyappointed in counseling, educational psychology and special educationand fisheries and wildlife. "This study highlights the importance andnecessity of interdisciplinary science and problem solving." Predators are likely to have more than one prey and prey are likely tohave more than one predator, ...Steroid use causes long-term agression, NU report indicates
...rs players for drug abuse, Northeastern University psychology professor Richard Melloni, who studies the link between steroid use and aggression, has recently found evidence that use of anabolic steroids may have long-term effects on behavior and aggression levels well after they stop abusing these performance ......orld.Karl Christoph Klauer studied mathematics and psychology at Aachen, Oxford and Hamburg. After a total of fi...ate at Hamburg, before gaining his habilitation in psychology at the Free University Berlin four years later. In 1994, he took on a professorship in psychology at...Alcoholics with antisocial personality disorder have blunted emotional reactivity
...se to the threat, said Peter R. Finn, professor of psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington. "Psychopaths, for example, are a subset of people with ASPD who show hyporesponsiveness to aversive stimuli. This study looks at reduced or 'hypo' reactivity to aversive stimuli as evidence for poor inhibition, w...Dr. Walter Reich, Ph.D., receives prestigious AAAS 2003 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award
...tical abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union; the psychology of terrorism; and the scientific, ethical and public policy dimensions of health. The Award recognizes scientists and engineers who have acted to protect the public's health, safety, or welfare; or focused public attention on important potential im...Research reveals brain has biological mechanism to block unwanted memories
...nism and it has a biological basis," said Stanford psychology Professor John Gabrieli, a co-author of the paper ...y want to, Gabrieli explained. Michael Anderson, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon and the paper's lead author, conducted the experiment with Gab...Adolescent rodents experience milder hangover effects than do adult rodents
...or many years," said Sandra J. Kelly, professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina. In addition, alcohol researchers have used both anti-anxiety and anxiety-provoking drugs in conjunction with alcohol consumption to help establish that increased anxiety leads to the suppression of social interac...Bridging the gap between genetics and motivations to drink alcohol
...A. Prescott, associate professor of psychiatry and psychology at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, and first author of the study. "This transmission could be either environmental, in that young adults model the drinking behavior and motivations of...Dyslexics not doomed to life of reading difficulties
...aning," said Berninger, a professor of educational psychology and director of the center. She explained that the brain codes words by their sound (or phonology), by the parts of words (or morphology) that signal meaning and grammar, and by their visual or written form (or their orthography.) "The teaching tha......me, symposium organizer and associate professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. "Virtually everything we think, feel, sense, and do are determined by activity of these neurochemicals and their related neuronal activity in the brain. Approximately 100 different neurochemicals have been iden...