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·June 8, 2017·5 min read

Fatherhood Factors Influence How Dads Spend Time with Children

According to researchers, resources, relationships and parenting beliefs play key roles in how a father spends time with his children.

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·June 8, 2017·4 min read

Overriding the Urge to Sleep

Researchers have identified neurons that control wakefulness.

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·June 8, 2017·4 min read

Hippocampus Can Organize Memories for Events as Well as Places

A new study reports the hippocampus puts events into sequence by changing the neural code in the rat brain.

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·June 8, 2017·5 min read

Brain Imaging Reveals Neural Roots of Caring

Researchers use neuroimaging to identify brain patters associated with feelings of empathy that are predictable and consistent across individuals.

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·June 8, 2017·2 min read

Does Your Name Match Your Face?

Researchers investigate whether if a person's name matches their face they would be judged more positively than those with more incongruent names.

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·June 8, 2017·4 min read

Neurological Issues May Drive Common Voice Disorders

People with voice disorders may have a problem with correctly utilizing auditory feedback to control their voices.

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·June 8, 2017·5 min read

Simple Tasks Don’t Test Brain’s True Complexity

The brain's ability to use approximate probabilistic inference can not be studied by simple tasks that are not well suited to expose the inferential computations that make the brain special, researchers say.

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·June 7, 2017·3 min read

Does Consuming Low Fat Dairy Increase Parkinson’s Risk?

According to researchers, people who consumed at least three servings of low fat dairy a day were had a 34% higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease.

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·June 7, 2017·4 min read

New Study Finds Youth Football Players Have Significant Differences in Head Impact Exposure

Researchers studied 97 football players between the ages of 9 and 13 years and found players experienced a total of 40,538 head impacts during four seasons of football games and practices. Significant differences in head impacts were seen between those in the games and practices.

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·June 7, 2017·2 min read

Plus Sized Fashion Models Improve Women’s Psychological Health

Summary: A new study reports women experience enhanced psychological health after viewing images of average and plus sized models. Source:...

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·June 7, 2017·5 min read

Girls More Likely to Have Sex, Take Sexual Risks, and Marry Young If They Menstruate Early

Researchers report girls who experience menstruation before the age of 12 are more likely to enter into sexual relationships, pregnancy and marriage earlier than girls who begin their periods at a more advanced age.