Treating Depression With Just One Dose a Week
Just one session of hot Hatha yoga a week appears to be sufficient in decreasing moderate to severe depression symptoms by half.
Psychology
Bacteria in the Gut can Influence Brain Function and Mood Disorders
Researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris identified a molecular pathway that links the gut microbiome to mood disorders.
Want to get on a baby’s good side? Act like one.
While siblings play copycat to annoy each other, babies actually enjoy it. Researchers from Lund University have found that when mirroring a baby's actions and emotions, the baby will smile and engage for longer.
Seven factors behind racism in the U.S. today
A recent article finds seven factors that contribute to racism within the American society, namely, Categories, Factions, Segregation, Hierarchy, Power, Media, and Passivism. It appears at a time of heightened racial tensions across the world as everyday…
Brain-machine interfaces may be used to study and regulate mood
Brain-machine interfaces translate brain signals into information that can be used to control robotic limbs, and now even predict an individual’s mood state. Researchers envision using BMIs together with electrical stimulation, to regulate abnormal brain…
Dirtiness is perceived by all, cleanliness is pursued by women
Housekeeping is an arena that houses gendered behavior even today, despite the increasing trend where both the man and the woman of the household work and ‘bring home the bread’. The common myth that men just cannot see the dirt has been…
With Great Responsibility Comes Great Charity
The next time you’re looking to raise some money, choose your words carefully. A recent study by a collaboration between Harvard Business School and the University of British Columbia has shown that the wealthy are willing to donate more money if they…
Your Personality May Determine How You Respond to Placebo Pills
The placebo effect is a puzzling phenomenon. Placebos (sugar pills or saline solutions secretly substituted for actual drugs) are commonly used in clinical trials to set a baseline against which to measure the effects of a drug. However, people in the…
New Detailed Brain Map Could Aide Future Understanding
Researchers have created the most detailed general map of the brain to date by scanning the brains of 1200 people. After recording detailed imaging of the subjects’ brain activity as they performed a variety of mental tasks, the information was used to…
Oh no! Recent paper may make it harder to blame your character faults on birth order
In this portrait of the Pailleron siblings, do you think Marie-Louise is fated to be spoiled while her older brother Édouard is sure to be bossy? “Portrait of Édouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron” by John Singer Sargent –…