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Can Sensitive Parenting Protect Against The Effects of Prenatal Stress? Written by Keiron Walsh
An interesting new study that is relevant to many areas of the A Level Psychology has just been published in the journal, Biological Psychology. The study investigated the relationship between prenatal stress (associated with a number…

Written on Friday, 26 February 2010 08:35 in Child Development
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Geek Chic Turns Women Off Computer Science Written by Keiron Walsh
Stereotypes of computer geeks may be keeping women away from careers in computing according to new research by psychologists at the University of Washington.

Written on Monday, 14 December 2009 20:28 in Social Psychology
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Deactivating Brain Region Stops Rats From Bingeing Written by Keiron Walsh
Researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that deactivating a region of the brain called the basolateral amygdala stops non-hungry rats from eating fatty food. Oddly, the rats still look for and find the food,…

Written on Wednesday, 09 September 2009 06:55 in Eating Behaviour
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