Every extra walk to school, kickabout in the park or trip to the shops could be doing more for teenage mental health than first thought, according to new research tracking thousands of adolescents in the US.

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Previous brain-wide association studies (BWAS) have linked specific environmental and behavioral variables to brain variability. In this work, we mapped 649 variables to children’s brains and compared...

More and more Americans are taking GLP-1 drugs; the current estimate is 11%. This causes a big problem for the food industry.  Eating less is bad for business. Here are some of the ways the food industry is responding. Analyzing the GLP-1 consumer Overturning 7 industry assumptions about the GLP-1 consumer: The newest evidence challenges some of the food industry’s most comfortable conclusions about GLP-1 consumers...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed opening a path for Canada to become the European Union's first associate member, a status that doesn't currently exist.

This study examined how acute alcohol exposure affects brain cortical activity in 34 healthy adults using TMS-EEG. Measurements were taken before, 30 min after, and 120 min after intoxication. Alcoho....

Prioritizing treatment targets can help parents, clinicians and researchers tailor therapies.

Hands-on tutorials for the book Elements of fMRI Analysis: runnable MATLAB and Python code, thought questions, and self-quizzes for all 42 chapters.

Lots of public benches can help make city a place to linger and enjoy, not just pass through

People are effort-averse in most situations but can exert effort for little reward when progressing towards goals. Here, the authors show that under deadline pressure people become effort-seeking whil...

Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.

<!DOCTYPE html> openESM: Open Experience Sampling Method Database A database of open experience sampling datasets openESM is a database of harmonized openly available experience sampling datasets.…

Conflicting findings about the psychological effects of social class might arise because different operationalizations represent conceptually different constructs. In this Review, Laurin describes thr...

When preparing a scientific paper, we typically write with coauthors who have different backgrounds and styles, and we target readers who have little time and patience. To help both readers and writer...

The differences in body types does mean that, on average, women find the exercise more difficult – but that’s not the whole story

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.

In this triple-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial, Eikemo et al. tested whether acute psychosocial stress increases opioid self-administration using controlled stress induction, oxy...

Each day we make dozens of decisions about food. These choices are informed not only by information that we receive from our senses, but also by our memories, values, cultural norms, and goals. Eviden...

Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...

Majority say Muslims are as British as white non-Muslims, but hostile attitudes at risk of being normalised, says thinktank

The neighborhoods children grow up in are associated with cognitive and mental health outcomes across the lifespan. Yet how neighborhood-level factors are quantified, and how they relate to large-scal...

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

The vagus nerve transmits vital signals between organ systems of the body and the brain. Despite growing interest in non-invasive transcutaneous vagus…

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