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These research articles involve many aspects of psychology such as cognitive psychology, depression studies, mental health, stress, happiness and neuropsychology, Scroll below for more specific categories.

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Detailed Robot Feedback Can Overload Human Learners

A new study reveals that detailed personalized feedback from humanoid robots causes immediate cognitive overload after errors, slowing immediate recovery despite improving long-term task performance.

AI Make-Believe Allows Deep Emotional Bonds Without Moral Guilt

By analyzing human-AI interaction through the lens of creative pretense and media theory, the study explains why people readily form emotional bonds and confide in AI companions without attributing moral status to them, allowing users to feel affection while freely resetting memories or switching off systems.

Reduced Brain Network Flexibility Across Psychiatric Conditions

A new study reveals that individuals with psychiatric conditions exhibit reduced flexibility in their brain network dynamics.

Risk Genes for Borderline Personality Disorder Discovered

The findings demonstrate significant genetic overlaps between BPD and PTSD, depression, ADHD, self-harm, COPD, and diabetes, opening new avenues for transdiagnostic psychiatric research and targeted drug discovery.

Study Links Childhood Unpredictability to Mental Health

A new study establishes childhood unpredictability as a distinct risk factor for youth mental health.

Rethinking the Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Cooperation Wins

A new study reveals how cooperation emerges and persists without complex social structures or genetic kinship.

Hippocampal Circuit Degradation Links Memory Loss to Apathy

A new study identifies the neural circuit linking memory impairment to apathy in patients with autoimmune limbic encephalitis.

GLP-1’s Reduce Binge Eating Symptoms

A new study establishes that GLP-1 receptor agonists significantly reduce core behavioral markers of Binge Eating Disorder, including active binge episodes, loss-of-control eating, and emotional eating.

Widespread M1 Receptor Deficits in Schizophrenia Found

A new study utilizes a novel PET radiotracer to provide the first in vivo evidence of widespread muscarinic acetylcholine M1 receptor deficits in living schizophrenia patients.

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Loneliness Directly Causes Poor Mental Health

By integrating observational analysis with sibling comparisons and Mendelian randomization, the cross-continental study isolates loneliness as an independent driver of systemic health decline and multi-condition physical frailty, establishing personal emotional disconnection as a high-priority public health emergency demanding integrated policy intervention.

Study Maps Brain Stem Networks to Help Patients Regulate PTSD

A new study combines rodent circuitry mapping with ultra-high-field 7T human fMRI to investigate periaqueductal gray (PAG) regulation.

Brain Scans Reveal a Network Origin Point for Schizophrenia

The research reveals widespread synaptic loss across frontal, temporal, and emotional hubs, heavily favoring the brain's left hemisphere, independent of macro-structural MRI volume changes.