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  'Should I Stay or Should I Go?' Scientists Link Brain Cell Types to Behavior

  May 27, 2013 — Neuroscientists have linked the activity of two types of brain nerve cells, neurons, to decisions made during particular type of behavior. They studied the activity of two types of inhibitory neurons ... > full story
• Behavior
  Staying Healthy
  Consumer Behavior
  Educational Psychology
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  Healthy Habits Die Hard: In Times of Stress, People Lean on Established Routines -- Even Healthy Ones

  May 27, 2013 — Stress and exhaustion may turn us into zombies, but a novel study shows that mindless behavior doesn't just lead to overeating and shopping sprees -- it can also cause us to stick with behaviors that ... > full story
• Memory
  Language Acquisition
  Child Development
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  Educational Psychology
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  Language Is in Our Biology

  May 27, 2013 — If you want to master languages, you should pick your parents with care, new research from Norway shows. A good working memory is perhaps the brain's most important system when it comes to learning a ... > full story
• HIV and AIDS
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  Promising Strategy to Help Vaccines Outsmart HIV

  May 24, 2013 — New research highlights an ingenious method to ensure the body effectively reacts when infected with the highly-evasive HIV virus that causes AIDS. The method involves the use of cytomegalovirus as a ... > full story
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Food
  Food and Agriculture
  Agriculture and Food
  Behavioral Science
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  Bittersweet: Bait-Averse Cockroaches Shudder at Sugar

  May 23, 2013 — Sugar isn't always sweet to German cockroaches. In a new study, researchers show that glucose sets off bitter receptors in roach taste buds, causing roaches to avoid foods that bring on this ... > full story
• Bacteria
  Infectious Diseases
  Microbes and More
  Pharmacology
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  Chemists Find New Compounds to Curb Staph Infection

  May 23, 2013 — In an age when microbial pathogens are growing increasingly resistant to the conventional antibiotics used to tamp down infection, scientists have synthesized a potent new class of compounds capable ... > full story
• Depression
  Mental Health Research
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  Chronic Illness
  Psychiatry
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  Depression Linked to Telomere Enzyme, Aging, Chronic Disease

  May 23, 2013 — The first symptoms of major depression may be behavioral, but the common mental illness is based in biology — and not limited to the brain, new research ... > full story
• Gender Difference
  Educational Psychology
  Child Development
  Child Psychology
  Educational Policy
  ADD and ADHD
   
  

  'Boys Will Be Boys' in U.S., but Not in Asia

  May 22, 2013 — A new study shows there is a gender gap when it comes to behavior and self-control in American young children -- one that does not appear to exist in children in ... > full story
• Psychology
  Child Development
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  Educational Psychology
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  Brain Can Be Trained in Compassion, Study Shows

  May 22, 2013 — A new study shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate. The report investigates whether training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior and related changes in ... > full story
• Nature
  Climate
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  Life Scientists Present New Insights on Climate Change and Species Interactions

  May 22, 2013 — Life scientists provide important new details on how climate change will affect interactions between species in newly published research. This knowledge, they say, is critical to making accurate ... > full story

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