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·July 24, 2014·2 min read

Stress Hormones Promote Brain’s Building of Negative Memories

Researchers report cortisol can strengthen negative memories.

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Featured Psychology

·July 10, 2014·4 min read

Virtual Humans Inspire Patients to Open Up

A new study reports patients are more open to disclosing personal information with a virtual human than a real one.

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Featured Psychology

·June 30, 2014·3 min read

Potential Drug Target for PTSD Prevention

Researchers identify a drug which appears to make memories of fearsome events less durable in mice.

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·June 18, 2014·4 min read

Portable Brain Mapping Device Allows Researchers to See Where Memory Fails Student Veterans

Using a portable brain mapping device, researchers discover limited prefrontal cortex activity among student veterans with PTSD when asked to recall information from simple memory tasks.

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Featured Psychology

·May 22, 2014·3 min read

How the Gut Feeling Shapes Fear

A new study suggests that our gut instinct has significant impact on how we react to fear.

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Featured Neuroscience

·April 12, 2014·4 min read

Online Registry Aims to Drive Brain Disease Research

The Brain Health Registry promises to cut the time and costs of conducting clinical trails for neurological diseases. The online project, led by UCSF, will help researchers to analyze and track the brain functions of thousands of volunteers over time.

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Featured Psychology

·April 10, 2014·2 min read

Researchers Search for Earliest Roots of Psychiatric Disorders

A new study reports newborns, whose mothers were exposed to a variety of environmental stressors while pregnant, could be susceptible to psychiatric disorders later in life.

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Featured Neuroscience

·March 18, 2014·4 min read

Out of Mind, Out of Sight

Suppressing unwanted memories disrupts traces of them in sensory processing areas and influences behavior, a new study reports.

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·February 20, 2014·5 min read

Study in Mice Raises Question: Could PTSD Involve Immune Cell Response to Stress?

A new study reports that after chronic stress, primed immune cells cause an excessive reaction to a later event.

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Featured Psychology

·February 12, 2014·4 min read

New Evidence That Chronic Stress Predisposes Brain to Mental Illness

Researchers show chronic stress generates long term changes in the brain. The finding could explain why people suffering from chronic stress are prone to developing additional mental health problems.