There is conflicting evidence as to whether military populations (i.e., veteran and active-duty military service members) demonstrate a poorer response to psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared to civilians. Existing research may be complicated by the fact that treatment outcomes differences could be due to the type of trau...
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Research in child wellbeing often assesses the effects of particular disadvantages or focuses on children’s resilience in adverse circumstances. In contrast, considering developmental optimization in early childhood, and what is necessary to foster it, informs the study of child wellbeing in the socioemotional domain. In the program of research rev...
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Malcolm Gladwell’s latest tome probes mutual misunderstanding and violations of trust. Tim Radford weighs up its riches. Credit: Gabe Souza/GettyA State Police Trooper talks with a driver after pulling him over for speeding
BACKGROUND:Early life stress (ELS) has been linked to health disparities across the human lifespan, particularly increased risk for depression and its recurrence. In this study we explore two plausible and competing pathways through which ELS may lead to depression via inflammation. METHODS:Participants (ages 18-22; n = 41) completed the Early Trau...
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In this article, we move from sensory physiology to psychology and consider the proverbially lazy drone. I will describe how some simple experiments permitted us to understand why males in the Indian paper wasp Ropalidia marginata do no work in the colony even during the time they live in it. Taking the behaviour of feeding larvae as an example of ...
© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Whether neurovisceral integration, reflected by resting high-frequency heart rate variability (HRV), constrains or facilitates neural reactivity to other people's emotions is unclear. We assessed the relation between resting HRV and neural activation when observing and imitating emotional faces. We focused on brain regions impl...
Variability is a fundamental feature of human brain activity that is particularly pronounced during development. However, developmental neuroimaging research has only recently begun to move beyond characterizing brain function exclusively in terms of magnitude of neural activation to incorporate estimates of variability. No prior neuroimaging study...
