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Todays BPS Research Digest highlights research that shows we’re better at recollecting events that occurred during our teens and early twenties than during any other period in our lives – an anomaly that experts call the “reminiscence bump”.
One explanation for the bump, according to Steve Janssen and colleagues, is that our memories work more efficiently during our teens and early adulthood relative to other periods in our lives. Link to read more
Source: BPS Research Digest
Minister for Science and Medical Research Verity Firth and Professor Cindi Shannon Weickert
Leading schizophrenia researcher, Professor Cyndi Shannon Weickert, has discovered that a brain receptor that normally stimulates growth in adolescence is hampered in people with schizophrenia.
The findings open up new opportunities for treatments for schizophrenia, commencing with a world first, three-year clinical drug trial this month.
Professor Shannon Weickert, who holds Australia’s first Chair of Schizophrenia Research, led the research which has recently been published in Human Molecular Genetics. [continue reading…]
One of the few studies to look at the effects of religious participation on the mental health of minorities suggests that for some of them, religion may actually be contributing to adolescent depression.
Previous research has shown that teens who are active in religious services are depressed less often because it provides these adolescents with social support and a sense of belonging. [continue reading…]
Women whose lives have been touched by the breast cancer experience of a friend or relative are more acutely attuned to their own risk for the disease and are taking action to protect themselves, according to a new national opinion poll by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Prevention magazine. [continue reading…]
