Studying Mental Health

Many who have analyzed the shocking pictures of American soldiers torturing prisoners in Iraq have stated that all of us are capable of such behavior. I'm not sure that's true. Studies actually indicate that some people don't follow orders under extreme circumstances. Now if we can identify these people in advance...

A 2003 study suggests that highly educated workers are at greater risk for mental health problems. The study was large, but it was conducted at a single workplace.

This summary of Mike Tyson's psychological assessment illustrates how psychologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychlogists, and neurologists approach things differently.

You not only are what you eat, you also are what you slurp, at least according to Brian Wansink, who has done a study that links soup choices to personality types.

Researchers reviewing several studies on autobiographical memory and happiness have found that human memory is biased toward happiness and that mild depression can disrupt this bias for good over bad.

Brain scans are an important tool for medical science, basic research and education, but this expensive technology is often out of reach for many institutions. Now a team at Dartmouth College has developed a repository for images of human brain scans that is available free to researchers and educators worldwide.

People who are creative, imaginative, and prone to fantasy are more likely to have vivid dreams at night and to remember them when they wake up, University of Iowa research shows.

Permanent physical brain changes from abuse can cause problems in adulthood.

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