Fans of soccer, hip-hop, Glenn Beck, Lady Gaga, and knitting all share one thing in common. People who are active, enthusiastic fans experience benefits to their happiness and sociability. Psychologists from the University of Kansas conducted a series of studies that compared the effects of fandom among sports fans with the effects on fans of music,…
Health organizations and health professionals inside Liberia have asked for years that the government do something about the deplorable lack of mental health care in Liberia. There is only one psychiatric hospital in the entire country, the E.S. Grant Hospital, which is run by Cap Anamur, a German organization. The hospital doesn’t even have a…
At the recent annual convention of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, a new study was presented about the role of sleep in how preschoolers score on various developmental assessments. The best developmental scores were achieved by 4-year-olds who not only had a regular bedtime but that averaged 11 hours or more of sleep a night….
A study recently presented at the Association for Psychological Science annual convention revealed some interesting findings about emotional smells. Apparently the closer that partners are to each other, the more they are able to actually smell the partner’s emotions. Denise Chen, a psychologist with Rice University in Houston, Texas led the study that worked with…
A recent survey commissioned by the automaker, Skoda, revealed that 60% of the people surveyed were happier when driving because they could be alone. Many listened to music while others preferred to use the solitude to think about different things. In today’s highly connected world, many people have lost the ability to commune with themselves…
At a time when job satisfaction is at an record breaking low in the United States, one psychologist says that performance reviews are adding tremendously to the stress in the workplace. Samuel Culbert, of the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, expounds on this theory in his new book title Get Rid of the Performance Review!…
“I don’t want anyone to have obsessive-compulsive disorder, ever again. That’s pretty grandiose,” said Meredith Coles when asked about her end goal. Coles is an associate psychology professor with Binghamtom University and the director of the Binghamton Anxiety Clinic. She has planned out a series of research projects that could lead to better treatment options…
For many people suffering depression, there is new hope with the latest treatment for depression – rTMS. That stands for Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, a new non-invasive device that has been FDA approved in the treatment of depression that has not responded well to drug therapy. The device sends focused, magnetic pulses into the part…
In a University of California study, a link has been shown from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans to an increased risk for developing age-related dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease. The study, led by Deborah Barnes, PhD, followed over 180,000 older veterans, mostly men, for seven years. Just over 53,000 of the subjects had been…