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What Do the Brains of Children Tell Us about Their Mental Health as Teens?
Psychology
Anxiety and depression in teens can go undetected for too long, says Northeastern psychology professor Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli. Her team is using brain imaging during childhood to spot early symptoms of mental illness.
Your Child Is Feeling Sluggish. How Much Water Has She Had to Drink Today?
Psychology
The more hydrated children are, the faster their reaction times and the better they are able to multitask, a new study co-authored by Northeastern professor Charles Hillman has found.
What’s on Your Mind (When You’re Scared out of It)
Psychology
We all know fear. But so far, what happens inside the human brain during scary situations is still a big mystery.
We Know What We Know (Even When We Don’t Want To)
Psychology
What’s preventing people from accepting that knowledge can be innate is itself innate.
AI’s Next Frontier: Stock Trading
Psychology
Jesse Greif earned his B.S. in psychology at Northeastern. He now is an executive on Wall Street at OneChronos Markets, a new Alternative Trading System that uses AI and Machine Learning to facilitate stock trading.
Don't Go Wasting Your Emotion: Using Group Therapy to Teach
Psychology
Samantha Goldman's experience leading group therapy taught her more than any textbook ever could. It also lead to her co-authoring a paper in the Spring 2019 volume of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society Journal.
Here’s the Secret to Unlocking Our Compassion in the Face of Mass Suffering
Psychology
David DeSteno and Daniel Lim found that people are more likely to feel compassion in the face of mass suffering if they believe they can make a difference. Compassion, it seems, is a skill you can strengthen, which is great news for society in general.
What People Who Don’t like Music Might Tell Us about Social Interaction
Psychology
Northeastern professors Ajay Satpute and Psyche Loui are studying the link between music and social interaction. They're asking whether the brain phenomenon that makes music undesirable to five percent of the population is also what impairs social bonding in people with autism spectrum disorders.
Do Hormones Affect a Woman’s Ability to Recover from PTSD?
Psychology
Rebecca Shansky is studying how levels of estriadol, an estrogen hormone, affect the treatment of women with PTSD.
Of Mice and Women
Psychology
Victorian-era stereotypes that were originally used to keep women out of leadership positions are still with us today, says Rebecca Shansky, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern. And they're interfering with scientific research.