Fathers as well as mothers can experience post-natal depression — and it is linked to emotional problems for their teenage daughters, new research has found. Continue reading “Post-natal depression in dads linked to depression in their teenage daughters”
Do personality traits of compulsive users of social media overlap with problem drinking?
A study published in the Australian Journal of Psychology found certain similarities and differences in personality traits when comparing compulsive use of social media with problematic or risky alcohol use. Continue reading “Do personality traits of compulsive users of social media overlap with problem drinking?”
Breathing through the nose aids memory storage
The way we breathe may affect how well our memories are consolidated (i.e. reinforced and stabilised). If we breathe through the nose rather than the mouth after trying to learn a set of smells, we remember them better, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report in The Journal of Neuroscience. Continue reading “Breathing through the nose aids memory storage”
Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses
Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression. This suggests that an entirely new class of depression and anxiety drugs might be right under our noses. Continue reading “Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses”
Music evokes powerful positive emotions through personal memories
We all have experiences of being emotionally moved after listening to music that we have strong personal memories of or to seeing an image that captures particularly important memories from our life. This new research critically examined the idea of how memories are able to influence our emotional responses induced by music and images. Continue reading “Music evokes powerful positive emotions through personal memories”
Research suggests people know an average of 5,000 faces
For the first time scientists have been able to put a figure on how many faces people actually know- a staggering 5,000 on average. Continue reading “Research suggests people know an average of 5,000 faces”
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