Being popular with your peers at school could mean you earn more as an adult. That’s according to new research by a team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER).

The research, which used American data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, found a clear link between a student’s popularity and their level of earnings later in life. [continue reading…]

MDMA, which has been made criminally illegal worldwide, is taken most commonly in pill form.

Treatment with a pharmacological version of the drug ecstasy makes PSTD patients more receptive to psychotherapy, and contributes to lasting improvement. Norwegian researchers explain why.

People who have survived severe trauma – such as war, torture, disasters, or sexual assault – will often experience after-effects, in a condition called posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The symptoms can include anxiety, uncontrolled emotional reactions, nightmares, intrusive memories, sleep and concentration difficulties, evasion of situations that resemble the trauma, and feelings of shame or amnesia. [continue reading…]

According to my mother fish was brain food. Now a study of nearly 4,000 teenagers published in the March issue of Acta Paediatrica,fifteen-year-old males who ate fish at least once a week displayed higher cognitive skills at the age of 18 than those who ate it less frequently – mothers always know whats best!
Eating fish once a week was enough to increase combined, verbal and visuospatial intelligence scores by an average of six per cent, while eating fish more than once a week increased them by just under 11 per cent. [continue reading…]