Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function, according to a research team based at Princeton University.
The researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience that when mice allowed to exercise regularly experienced a stressor ...
Exercise Reorganizes The Brain to Be More Resilient to Stress
Posted On Friday, July 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW JERSEY Tags: Elizabeth Gould, Journal of Neuroscience, Princeton University, psychology, regulate anxiety, ventral hippocampus
Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function, according to a research team based at Princeton University.
The researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience that when mice allowed to exercise regularly experienced a stressor ...
Bad Decisions Arise From Faulty Information, Not Faulty Brain Circuits
Posted On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW JERSEY Tags: Carlos Brody, Matthew Botvinick, Molecular Biology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, psychology
Making decisions involves a gradual accumulation of facts that support one choice or another. A person choosing a college might weigh factors such as course selection, institutional reputation and the quality of future job prospects.
But if the wrong choice is made, Princeton University researchers have found that it might be ...
Mental Break: Work-Life Balance Needed For Recovery From Job Stress
Posted On Thursday, February 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under KANSAS Tags: job stress, Mental break, performance capabilities, psychology, South Korean workforce, YoungAh Park
MANHATTAN -- Detaching from work -- mentally, physically and electronically -- is the key to recovery from job stress during nonwork hours, according to a Kansas State University researcher.
YoungAh Park, assistant professor of psychology and former businesswoman in the competitive South Korean workforce, has researched the stress crossover phenomenon between ...
Psychology department administrator named HR Liaison of Quarter
Posted On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: HR Liaison of Quarter, Human Resources, Kimberly Ann Clark, psychology, Psychology department administrator, University of Delaware’s
Kimberly Ann Clark, business administrator in the University of Delaware’s Department of Psychology, has been named Human Resources (HR) Liaison of the Quarter for the last quarter of 2013.
The award identifies and recognizes an outstanding performer within the HR liaison community for the preceding quarter.
Gregory Miller, chair of the Department ...
Sign of empathy: bonobos comfort friends in distress
Posted On Saturday, February 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Animal Research, Department of Psychology, develop in humans, Health Sciences Research, Living Links Center, Lola ya Bonobo, psychology, Research
Comforting a friend or relative in distress may be a more hard-wired behavior than previously thought, according to a new study of bonobos, which are great apes known for their empathy and close relation to humans and chimpanzees. This provides key evolutionary insight into how critical social skills may develop ...
Disasters Can Prompt Older Children To Be More Giving, Younger Children to Be More Selfish
Posted On Thursday, January 31, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ILLINOIS Tags: Altruism, Empathy, Experiencing a Natural Disaster Alters Children’s Altruistic Giving, Jean Decety, Kang Lee, Natural disasters, Prosocial behavior, psychology
A natural disaster can bring out the best in older children, prompting 9-year-olds to be more willing to share, while 6-year-olds become more selfish. Researchers at the University of Toronto, the University of Chicago, and Liaoning Normal University made this finding in a rare natural experiment in China around the ...
Psych/Nursing Student Has Deep Roots at Penn
Posted On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Harnwell House, nursing, psychology, Tony Krumbhaar, University of Pennsylvania
Even though he has never lived in Harnwell House, Tony Krumbhaar has a connection to the legendary University of Pennsylvania president that no one else on campus can claim. He is a great-grandson of Gaylord P. Harnwell, who led Penn in 1953-70.
And the roots go even deeper. One of Krumbhaar’s ...
WVU Student Creates Digital Building Blocks To A Healthier Lifestyle
Posted On Saturday, January 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WEST VIRGINIA Tags: computer gaming class, Computer Science, Dr. Frances VanScoy’s, Office of Wellness & Health Promotion, psychology, West Virginia University’s
At one point in his college years, Jeffrey Byrd didn’t know whether his calling in life was to be a health professional or a computer nerd. Luckily, he found a job where he was able to be both of these things at West Virginia University’s WellWVU.
A student worker job he ...
