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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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Neural Sweet Talk

A new study reports taste related words like 'sweet' or 'bitter' engage emotional centers in the brain more than literal words with the same meaning.

Helpful Bouncing Babies Show That Moving Together to Music Builds Bonds

Moving in time with another to music helps babies to bond, a new report suggests.

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Sensitive? Emotional? Empathetic? It Could be in Your Genes

A new neuroimaging study finds physical evidence that the highly sensitive brain responds powerfully to emotional images.

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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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Reward Response May Demonstrate Why Quitting Smoking Is Harder for Some

Researchers identify an aspect of brain activity that helps to predict the effectiveness of a reward-based strategy as motivation to quit smoking.

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When Good People Do Bad Things

New research finds being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal morality.

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From Contemporary Syntax to Human Language’s Deep Origins

New research amplifies hypothesis that human language builds on birdsong and speech forms of other primates.

Researchers Identify Regulation Process of Protein Linked to Bipolar Disorder

Researchers provide new insight into a protein associated with bipolar disorder.

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Inside the Adult ADHD Brain

Researchers find key differences in a brain communication network between adults who had recovered from childhood ADHD, and adults that had not.

New Evidence Links Air Pollution to Autism and Schizophrenia

Researchers describe how early life exposure to air pollution produces significant brain changes, including enlargement of the part of the brain seen in humans with autism and schizophrenia.