Huge increase in ADHD diagnoses
Psychiatrists with ethics training less likely to push branded drugs
‘Cool’ kinds are often bullies
Fooling ourselves about multi-tasking
Kids who worry do better at school
Choosing high calories in hard times
Abuse at home and violence in romance linked
Different susceptibility to both positive and negative experiences
Air pollution and happiness correlated
Massive search for gene for depression finds nothing!
Loneliness lowers immune responses
Brain changes and childhood trauma
Facebook affects social control, BMI and credit card use
Emotional regulation, the brain and borderline personality disorder
Mindfulness may reduce inflammation eg in arthritis
Reasoning and perspective taking start early
A higher status role gives people a thicker skin, more able to ride difficulties
Giving fathers oxytocin makes them more attuned and leads to more responsive babies
Effects of violent videos get worse, the more they are played
How cell phone use damages creativity
Schizophrenia linked to social inequality
Psychosocial stress increases the risk of strokes
We become synchronised, body and brain, as we become bonded
Some hunger in childhood reduces cognitive decline later
Antisocial behaviour, nature and nurture
Child abuse linked to later ashma
More TV, and TV in bedroom, leads to more obese children
Fit children do best in class as well
Link between early parent-child interactions and later autistic symptoms
Higher testosterone levels equates with lower empathic accuracy
Extrovert gorillas live longer
Multiple media use linked with anxiety and depression
Stress linked to heart attacks and diabetes in women
Higher death rate for childless couples
Practice can make excellent liars
Doctors’ empathy increases tolerance to pain
Pinnochio story true|: nose temperature increases when we lie!
Nostalgia literally makes us feel warmer
Less ability to pay attention linked to shorter telomeres and worse immune functioning
Sadness affects peoples finances, increases impulsive spending
Risk of heart attacks increased with job loss
We do not conform blindly: critiquing Milgram and Lombardo
Happiness when young predicts greater wealth on growing up
Bad childhood experiences is the real predictor of PTSD in combat soldiers
In t together? New research on the origins of group cooperation
Children who attend daycare are more likely to be overweight
Oxytocin associated with bonding and caregiving in foster carers
Stress in pregnancy can lead to being bullied later in school
Placebo works better when for more resilient people
Oxytocin makes males more faithful!
Different kinds of meditation affect the brain and arousal systems differently
How child abuse affects immune functioning when children grow up
Even moderate drinking in pregnancy can affect a child’s IQ
Meditation reduces risk of death by heart attack or stroke in heart patients
Alexithymia, or emotional disconnectedness, is a risk to marriage
Dancing helps stress and psychosomatic problems in teenage girls
Social isolation disrupts production of white matter in the brains of animals