African-American youth have proven they can bounce back after facing hardship and adversity, yet the majority of studies on this population still focus on the negative outcomes of risk factors, according to a task force of the American ...
A new report suggests that measuring how much an individual's performance varies across several neuropsychological tests enhances the accuracy of predicting whether older adults will develop dementia.
The study is published by researchers at Albert Einstein College of ...
New imaging techniques have allowed researchers to study how our brain can switch from one plan to another on literally a moment’s notice.
And the new knowledge may lead to enhanced understanding of psychiatric diseases such as ...
A new web-based survey assessing suicidal tendencies among college students suggests the thought pattern is more common than expected.
More than half of 26,000 students across 70 colleges and universities who completed a survey on suicidal experiences reported ...
The American Psychological Association has urged psychologists to take a leading role in ending discrimination based on gender identity, calling upon the profession to provide "appropriate, nondiscriminatory treatment to all transgender and gender-variant individuals" and encouraging more ...
Rather than being a bane to educators and parents, certain types of video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamers' dexterity as well as their ability to problem-solve – attributes that have proven useful not only to students ...
Researchers have identified a protein from a most unlikely source -- baker's yeast -- that might protect against Parkinson’s disease.
More than a million Americans suffer from Parkinson's disease, and no treatments are available that fundamentally alter the ...
A new study discovers the incidence of a psychological disorder among biracial Asian Americans are double the diagnosis rate of monoracial Asian Americans.
Researchers examined individuals of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian descent.
"Up to 2.4 percent of ...
A new study finds different patterns of brain activity in people with borderline personality disorder were associated with disruptions in the ability to recognize social norms or modify behaviors --- factors that may result in distrust and broken ...
Emerging research suggests cognitive behavioral therapy that teaches an individual to have hope can overcome depression.
“We’re finding that hope is consistently associated with fewer symptoms of depression. And the good news is that hope is something ...
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