Psychology

Kappa Opioid Receptors Are New Target For Alcoholism Treatment

Mu Delta Kappa is a key brain receptor targets for opiates because the mu opioid receptor is the primary target for morphine and endogenous opioids like endorphin. The delta opioid receptor shows the highest affinity for endogenous enkephalins. The kappa ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2014 - 10:38am

Mental Illness Reduces Life Expectancy More Than Heavy Smoking

If we care about saving lives, we'd be better off funding more mental health services than we are taxing and penalizing cigarettes companies in order to subsidize the industry that has been built to market against cigarettes. Serious mental illnesses ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2014 - 7:53pm

Mind Versus Soul: What Mechanical Turk Results Can Tell Us About Free Will

Do you have a soul? Even if you do, psychologists say, free will is a conscious choice.  This is nothing new. Religious people of 400 B.C. debunked atomic determinism because they believed in free will, just like they debunked genetic determinism of the e ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 9:34am

Freudian Slip: Spontaneous Thoughts Evoke Meaningful Self-Insight

Spontaneous thoughts, intuitions, quick impressions, we all have random thoughts popping into our minds on a daily basis and sometimes they even pop out of our mouths. What to make of unplanned, spur-of-the-moment thoughts? If you know bad psychologists, ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 6:00pm

Eckhart Tolle On Zen, God Not Masturbation

I may have once endorsed Eckhart Tolle by pointing out similarities between Tolle and Muho. Muho wrote to me that he does not know why his own meditative practice worked for him. In my eyes, such honesty and awareness about uncertainty are consistent with ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 7 2017 - 7:02am

Gender Stereotypes In Academia Keep Women Out?

In the medical work force, women have representation no different than any other corporation. That makes sense, women have accounts for half of all medical student graduates for decades. Yet in the top tiers of academia, they lag behind men. Is that gende ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 1:59pm

Want To Seem More Attractive? Have A Pleasant Smell

Want to be sexier? Ask your next potential boyfriend to meet you in a bakery. Perfumes and scented products have been used for centuries as a way to enhance overall personal appearance and studies have shown that perception of facial attractiveness could ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 5:41pm

Start Them Early, Give Them Often If You Want Kids To Like Vegetables

Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, say psychologists from the University of Leeds. ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2014 - 5:49pm

How Addicted Are You To Cigarette Smoking?

In Mexico, 21.7 percent of the population smokes. By now, smoking has been implicated in every possible condition- lung cancer, obviously, but then crazy claims like that third-hand smoke could lead to epigenetic changes that make your grandchildren obese. ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2014 - 11:32am

Women, You Do Worse On Math Tests If You Wear A Bathing Suit

Everything you do changes your brain, even reading this sentence. A psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire believes that clothing impacts the way we think and literally changes our brains. We know some of this to be true; everyone has a favorite ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2018 - 4:20pm