UW study: Baby's face lights up emotional center of new mom's brain
...cientist and assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology at UW-Madison. "We know that depression and anxiety are not accompanied solely by an increase in negative emotions, but also by a decrease in positive ones," says Nitschke, lead author of the paper. "Yet we know much more about negative emotions than...Toxin combo common in fish appears capable of impairing motor skills
...lso is a professor in the Neuroscience Program and psychology department at Illinois. At birth, the p... biosciences; William T. Greenough, a professor of psychology and cell and structural biology at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illi...Wasps' brains enlarge as they perform more demanding jobs
... a University of Washington associate professor of psychology and lead author of a new study published in the February issue of Neuroscience Letters. "It is easily apparent with magnification." O'Donnell said the changes take place in sections of the brain called the mushroom bodies. There is one mushroom bod......false memory reports," says University of Victoria psychology professor Dr. Stephen Lindsay. His NSERC-sponsored...ence. Forty-five first year psychology students were told three stories about their grade-school experiences and asked about their memories...New IU Bloomington life sciences building gets a name
...ding will house researchers in chemistry, biology, psychology and physics. "Through the Simon family's generosity, Simon Hall will become the reality the College needs it to be, a cutting edge multidisciplinary facility," said IUB College of Arts and Sciences Dean Kumble R. Subbaswamy. "This building will be a...UF researcher: Animals think in their own way, but unlike humans
...ant by "think," according to University of Florida psychology Professor Clive Wynne, who writes about these creature features and others in a new 244-page book, "Do Animals Think?" being published this month by Princeton University Press. While animals can do many clever things and even reason, they don't h...Brain cells become more discriminating when they work together
...oelle, assistant professor of computer science and psychology at Vanderbilt, who did not participate in the study. "The Bonds paper can be seen as the first step towards providing a test of these theoretical models." Scientists studying vision have known for some time that different groups of neurons in the vis...National Academies news: 72 new members chosen by academy
...ZABETH F. ; distinguished professor, department of psychology and social behavior and department of criminology, law, and society, University of California, Irvine MAPLE, M. BRIAN ; Bernd Matthias Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla MAYO, STEPHEN L. ; associate investigator, Ho...For a male sand goby, playing 'Mr. Mom' is key to female's heart
... case." Sigal Balshine, an assistant professor of psychology and specialist in animal behavior at McMaster University in Ontario, called the results "very neat and very novel." Asked about analogies to human behavior, she said, "Being a good father is very sexy. This is almost a clich, as it has become a stan...The science of overcrowded life boats and other moral dilemmas
...ne of the first scholars to suggest that empirical psychology should influence moral philosophy. In 1999 he was invited to participate in a conference with the Dalai Lama on the topic of destructive emotions. The event was the basis of the recent book Beyond Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Collaboration With...UCLA scientists decipher how the brain retrieves and stores our oldest memories
...ator and professor of neurobiology, psychiatry and psychology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "We knew that the hippocampus did not store memories permanently. "Most people define memory as their collective lifetime experiences," added Silva, a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. "The...Study shows that genes can protect kids against poverty
...hor of the recent paper and postdoctoral fellow in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Ins...eerful they are," says co-author Terrie Moffitt, a psychology professor at UW-Madison and King's College London. Given these genetically influenced capabilities, ...The science and law of torture
...ityand how does the current research in sociology, psychology informthe debate about torture? "Authorizing, permitting or tolerating torture or acts that areinconsistent with the principles of international law, U.S. law,or our values as a country would have serious implications forour nation and for the intern...Birds show superior listening skills
...ompare humans and birds," said Dr. Chris Sturdy, a psychology professor at the University of Alberta. "Humans and rats are weak by any standard, and they're just awful when you compare them to the songbirds." For the study, humans were given monetary rewards when they memorized or recognized the pitches that we...Leading scientists design new framework for biodiversity conservation
...ans. "It goes beyond conservation science to human psychology figuring out how we can get the pieces of land with the biggest conservation impact. It requires data conservationists have not historically collected: property values and understanding what will motivate a landowner to sell, and it changes the plac...When male fish hum, females swim in, thanks to hormones, adaptable hearing
... vertebrate," said Joseph Sisneros, a UW assistant psychology professor who studies the neural basis of behavior. He is the lead author of a paper being published in the July 16 edition of the journal Science . Sisneros and a Cornell research team headed by Andrew Bass, found that a spike in levels of the hor...New framework for biodiversity conservation
...man. "It goes beyond conservation science to human psychology figuring out how we can get the pieces of land with the biggest conservation impact. It requires data conservationists have not historically collected such as property values and understanding what will motivate a landowner to sell. In an ever chang...What are babies thinking before they start talking?
...The research by Sue Hespos, assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, and Elizabeth Spelke, professor of psychology at Harvard University, was published in the July 22 issue of Nature in the article "Conceptual precu...Environment influences learning: U of T study
...was important. This is an important bridge between psychology and neurobiology. Affecting an environment affects your ability to learn." The researchers have also identified a mutation that affects the environment's role in memory recall. When you test and train the worms with this mutation in a different envi...Ecologist calls for creation of an international panel to assess human behavior
...ciology, history, economics, political science and psychology - as well as two departments of anthropology. ''The absurdity of this disciplinary organization has not gone unrecognized by social scientists,'' Ehrlich asserted, ''but there seems to be no real movement to correct the situation. Participation in a...