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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/psychology/" target="_blank">Psychology Research News -- ScienceDaily</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Learn about the brain, behavior and health. Read health articles on intellectual development, brain abnormalities, and mental health. Updated daily.</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/HcI4qfAvBSg/210416145830.htm" target="_blank">Female protective effect: Researchers find clues to sex differences in autism</a><br />');
document.write('Researchers have found that autism may develop in different regions of the brain in girls than boys and that girls with autism have a larger number of genetic mutations than boys, suggesting that they require a larger \'genetic hit\' to develop the disorder.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/SHKh4dXl_RE/210415133150.htm" target="_blank">A neuromagnetic view through the skull</a><br />');
document.write('The brain processes information using both slow and fast currents. Until now, researchers had to use electrodes placed inside the brain in order to measure the latter. Researchers have now successfully visualized these fast brain signals from the outside -- and found a surprising degree of variability.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/FhCSxye5FKM/210415090715.htm" target="_blank">New measure to predict stress resilience</a><br />');
document.write('Researchers show that increased sensitivity in a specific region of the brain contributes to the development of anxiety and depression in response to real-life stress. Their study establishes an objective neurobiological measure for stress resilience in humans.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/wwaGkJn_rB8/210414154941.htm" target="_blank">New study reveals brain basis of psychopathy</a><br />');
document.write('According to a new study, the structure and function of the brain areas involved in emotions and their regulation are altered in both psychopathic criminal offenders and otherwise well-functioning individuals who have personality traits associated with psychopathy.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/MFbCMZAvak0/210414154910.htm" target="_blank">Brain regions responsible for intoxicating effects of alcohol</a><br />');
document.write('The slurred speech, poor coordination, and sedative effects of drinking too much alcohol may actually be caused by the breakdown of alcohol products produced in the brain, not in the liver as scientists currently think.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/vAao8WlGT_8/210414113539.htm" target="_blank">Get your head in the game -- One gene\'s role in cranial development</a><br />');
document.write('Researchers have found that certain cells in mouse craniums respond to increased expression of a gene called Dlx5 during early stages of embryonic development. They observed that a layer of these cells formed more bone and cartilage in mice engineered with high Dlx5 levels. Their interesting results provide crucial information for the mechanistic role of this gene in cell fate during cranial development.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/wujFBexSprE/210413144922.htm" target="_blank">Joyful screams perceived more strongly than screams of fear or anger</a><br />');
document.write('The human scream signals more than fear of imminent danger or entanglement in social conflicts. Screaming can also express joy or excitement. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that non-alarming screams are even perceived and processed by the brain more efficiently than their alarming counterparts.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/uY-L-FaXj1M/210413110645.htm" target="_blank">Smell you later: Exposure to smells in early infancy can modulate adult behavior</a><br />');
document.write('The smells that newborn mice are exposed to affect many social behaviors later in life, but how this happens is still a mystery. Scientists have now discovered the molecules necessary for imprinting.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/KDgHTKtaAmw/210413092507.htm" target="_blank">Social comparisons drive income\'s effect on happiness in states with higher inequality</a><br />');
document.write('Americans were found to be happier in states with higher wealth inequality when they had people of similar backgrounds -- some richer, some poorer -- to compare themselves with.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/lm3AYHbcY-Y/210413081406.htm" target="_blank">Study links structural brain changes to behavioral problems in children who snore</a><br />');
document.write('A large study of children has uncovered evidence that behavioral problems in children who snore may be associated with changes in the structure of their brain\'s frontal lobe. The findings support early evaluation of children with habitual snoring (snoring three or more nights a week).');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/rTTkg-f-N1Y/210412161850.htm" target="_blank">Spanking may affect the brain development of a child</a><br />');
document.write('A new study linking spanking and child brain development shows spanking could alter a child\'s neural responses to their environment, in similar ways to a child experiencing more severe violence.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/ijGhzEJweAo/210412142735.htm" target="_blank">Study showing how the brain retrieves facts and may help people with memory problems</a><br />');
document.write('A shared set of systems in the brain may play an important role in controlling the retrieval of facts and personal memories utilized in everyday life, new research shows. Scientists say their findings may have relevance to memory disorders, including dementia, where problems remembering relevant information can impact on the daily life of patients.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/q7ncJ5BmMsI/210412132951.htm" target="_blank">Stress does not lead to loss of self-control in eating disorders</a><br />');
document.write('A unique residential study has concluded that, contrary to perceived wisdom, people with eating disorders do not lose self-control - leading to binge-eating - in response to stress.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/lCmiZvNGkZI/210412114839.htm" target="_blank">Biologists investigate effects of bisphenols on nerve cells</a><br />');
document.write('Bisphenols contained in many everyday objects can impair important brain functions in humans, biologists warn. Their study shows that even small amounts of the plasticizers bisphenol A and bisphenol S disrupt the transmission of signals between nerve cells in the brains of fish. The researchers consider it very likely that similar interference can also occur in the brains of adult humans.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/psychology/~3/zJ83Z2nlMA4/210412114815.htm" target="_blank">Women \'risk\' grey hair to feel authentic</a><br />');
document.write('Many women \'risk\' allowing natural grey hair to show in order to feel authentic, a new study shows.');
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