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The Paradox of Dyslexia: Slow Reading, Fast Thinking
A once hidden disability is brought to light by Drs Bennet and Sally Shaywitz of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Their research connects IQ, reading level, and cognition in dyslexic and typical
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A New Look at Playing Pretend
A recent study by Professor of Psychology Paul Bloom and graduate student Deena Skolnick Weisberg found that young children draw distinctions in their imaginary worlds
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Spearheading Schizophrenia Research: A Quest for New Treatments
Since 1988, Dr. John Krystal has taken schizophrenia research down a new path, discovering potential new antipsychotic therapies by investigating the brain's glutamate release and response systems
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Prosopagnosia – Whose Face is It?
Prosopagnosia is a selective and often severe deficit in the ability to recognize others’ faces. People suffering from the disorder are often unable to recognize their friends and family members by face alone
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Keepon: The Dancing Robot
The yellow robot Keepon, which became an Internet sensation in 2007, was developed by Hideki Kozima and Marek Michalowski to study the development of social intelligence in young children
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Studying Mood Disorders With MRI Brain Analyses
Dr. Hilary Blumberg has used MRI to investigated the effect of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (bDNF) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) on brain structure and development
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Book Review: “Mania: a Short History of Bipolar Disorder”
In a definitional whirlwind, David Healy in Mania upsets any notions of the continuity of our time’s mental disorders, following the history of bipolar disorder from the ancient Greeks through the present
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Ears Can’t Take All the Credit: Facial Expressions Influence Hearing
In a recently published paper in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Takayuki Ito and colleagues at the Haskins Laboratory tested whether stretching a subject’s skin in a certain direction while streaming
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Hold That Thought: Professor Receives Award to Study Intelligence
Jeremy Gray, Assistant Professor of Psychology, is one of these researchers. Gray received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to further his research on the link among emotion, self-control, and
Read More »Everyday Q&A: How does aging affect memory?
In general, older people have more difficulty learning new things, retrieving old information, and multitasking. In order to understand what causes this weakening, we must first understand how memory works
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