After a fun and restful holiday season with family, it’s back to work bright and early (8 a.m. class) tomorrow morning! Not only is it a new year, but I’m also going to be using my two new textbooks for my classes (Discovering Psychology: The Science of Mind with John Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: muscle epigenetics “”It is well-established that being inactive is perilous, and that regular physical activity improves health, quality of life and life expectancy”, says Professor Carl Johan Sundberg, Principal Investigator at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. “However, exactly how the positive effects of Read more…
Here is what we are reading today: predicting smoker relapse “Reporting in a new study published this week in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, James Loughead, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry, and Caryn Lerman, PhD, a professor of Psychiatry and director of Penn’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, found that smokers who relapsed within Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: vitamin D deficiency and depression “”Rather than being one of many factors, vitamin D could have a regulative role in the development of SAD,” said Alan Stewart of the University of Georgia College of Education. An international research partnership between UGA, the University Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: culture influencing violence “When Yanomamö men in the Amazon raided villages and killed decades ago, they formed alliances with men in other villages rather than just with close kin like chimpanzees do. And the spoils of war came from marrying their allies’ sisters Read more…