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The Easiest Way to Generate Dopamine, According to Neuroscience

Vogue 10 Aug 2025
Low dopamine can also manifest as a persistent feeling of fatigue, apathy, and a lack of motivation ... “Emotionally, low dopamine can contribute to feelings of sadness, social withdrawal, and a diminished ability to experience happiness ... .
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Sense of personal victimhood linked to conspiracy thinking in large international study

PsyPost 10 Aug 2025
People who are quick to see themselves as victims of unfair treatment may be more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, according to a massive international study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology ... Viktoria Cologna and Dr ... ....
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People with narcissistic tendencies report more ostracism and are more often excluded

PsyPost 10 Aug 2025
Ostracism (being excluded or ignored) is a psychologically painful experience with well-documented negative consequences ... Christiane M. Büttner and colleagues explored this possibility by proposing three mechanisms linking narcissism to ostracism ... ....
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Sleep may amplify negative memory bias in anxious youth

PsyPost 10 Aug 2025
The study was motivated by growing evidence that sleep shapes emotional memory ... By bridging cognitive neuroscience with clinical science, we aimed to explore how sleep interacts with anxiety to influence negative overgeneralization.” ... Mattfeld.
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Physically active individuals tend to have slightly better cognitive abilities on average

PsyPost 10 Aug 2025
A meta-analysis of studies exploring the relationship between physical activity and cognitive performance found a small positive association between the two. The strongest effects were observed for moderate-to-vigorous outdoor physical activity ... ....
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Intellectual humility is linked to less political and religious polarization across the board

PsyPost 10 Aug 2025
This link held across different measures, including both self-reported attitudes and behavioral indicators of hostility toward ideological outgroups, and often remained significant even after accounting for the strength of a person’s beliefs ... ....
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Dementia rates vary sharply across U.S. regions

PsyPost 10 Aug 2025
A study of older U.S. veterans found that dementia incidence was lowest in the Mid-Atlantic region (11.2 cases per 1,000 person-years) and highest in the Southeast (14.0 cases per 1,000 person-years). The paper was published in JAMA Neurology ... regions.
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Neuroscience has a name for the way so many Jews are feeling today: learned helplessness ...

The Jerusalem Post 09 Aug 2025
Even in moments when everything feels out of our control, there are things we can do to push back against that feeling ....
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Pomerantz Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Against Alto Neuroscience, Inc.and Certain ...

Nasdaq Globe Newswire 09 Aug 2025
NEW YORK, Aug. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Alto Neuroscience, Inc. (“Alto” or the “Company”) (NYSE. ANRO) and certain officers ... .
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Cape Codder with cerebral palsy leads award-winning lab - now focus of new children's book

Cape Cod Times 09 Aug 2025
They sought a new doctor, which changed Friel's life ... 9 ... It targets first through fourth graders but addresses themes relevant to all children, including brain injury, STEM, neuroscience, growth mindset, and disability advocacy.
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AI’s personality-reading powers aren’t always what they seem, study finds

PsyPost 09 Aug 2025
... Research Group (IDLab) in the Faculty of Psychology and the Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro) — along with Daniel Ortiz Martínez, a researcher in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.
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Pet dogs fail to favor generous people over selfish ones in tests

PsyPost 09 Aug 2025
A new study published in Animal Cognition challenges the idea that dogs can judge a person’s character based on how that person behaves toward others ... The research team set out to examine a long-standing question in animal cognition ... ....
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