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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.

Immune Cells Linked to Schizophrenia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

A new study reports microglia may play a role in a diverse array of neurodegenerative and psychiatric illnesses.

Prenatal Stress Predisposes Female Mice to Binge Eat

Stressed mother mice are more likely to produce offspring with binge eating habits later in life, a new study reports.

Brain Opioids Help Us To Relate To Others

Study reveals how the brain's opioid system modulates response to others in pain.

Your Sex Life is Only as Old as You Feel

According to researchers, the closer you feel to your chronological age, the less likely you are to be satisfied with your love life.

Mother’s Stress Affects Baby Through Amniotic Fluid

Study reveals corticotropin-releasing hormone can rise in amniotic fluid when the mother is stressed over long periods of time while pregnant.

Probiotics May Help Improve Symptoms of Depression

According to researchers, probiotics can help relieve symptoms of depression, as well as be beneficial in helping to treat IBS.

Century Old Drug Could Help Treat Autism Symptoms

According to researchers, a century old drug originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness shows promise for treating symptoms of autism.

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Being Cruel To Be Kind: Making People Feel Bad May Be a Strategy For Helping Them

According to researchers, people may try to invoke negative emotions in others for altruistic reasons, not simply for their own benefit.

Monkey Say: Marmosets Learn to Call the Same Way Human Babies Learn to Babble

Just as a baby's babbles begin to sound more like recognizable human speech if they receive frequent vocal feedback from adults, the same kind of interaction speeds up speech acquisition in marmosets, a new study reveals.