Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Scientists Finds Gene That Helps Us Forget

A discovery poised to do a lot of good for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder has been made by scientists in MIT. The gene in question is known as Tet1, and it controls memory by manipulating the levels of DNA methylation

Saturday, 14 September 2013

How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy

No one joins Facebook to be sad and lonely. But a new study from the University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross argues that that is exactly how it makes us feel. Over two weeks, Kross and his colleagues sent text messages to eighty-two Ann Arbor residents five times per day.