Psychology

Some 42% of Australians experience a traumatic event before turning 18—and it affects their health decades later.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

The term intimate partner violence (IPV) refers to physical, sexual or psychological abuse perpetrated by an individual on their romantic partner or spouse. Victims of IPV who are violently attacked and physically abused on a […]

Researchers at University Hospital Zurich and the University of Zurich report that intimate physical contact combined with intranasal oxytocin was associated with modestly faster skin wound healing and lower stress hormone levels in healthy romantic […]

A University of Sydney-led study published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry has found 42% of Australian adults—more than eight million people—experienced a traumatic event as children.This article was originally published on […]

Deep brain stimulation—implants in the brain that act as a kind of “pacemaker”—has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an open-label trial.This article was originally published on […]

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed an experimental method to induce a strong physiological response linked to psychological pressure by making participants aim for a streak of success in a task.This article was […]

The children of people who grew up with parental acceptance and lack of negativity tend to struggle less with their own parenting, a new analysis indicates.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Some people are so good with faces that there’s a name for them—super-recognizers. And a new study using eye-tracking technology has given us some insights into how they do it.This article was originally published on […]

A research team from the INMA Project (Childhood and Environment) has analyzed how pet ownership during early childhood may be related to emotional and behavioral well-being in children. The results suggest that both the type […]

A new study published in the journal JMIR Mental Health by JMIR Publications highlights a critical risk in the growing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4o by researchers: the frequent fabrication and inaccuracy […]