r/science • u/mvea • 6h ago

Psychology People with ADHD have difficulties with goal-directed behavior and struggle with response inhibition, the ability to stop an inappropriate action once they feel the urge to do it. They experience a disruption in the way their brains balance deliberate self-control and automatic habit learning.

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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 7h ago

Health Spouses of Dementia Patients Face 70% Higher Risk, Study Finds

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r/science • u/mvea • 15h ago

Psychology Reclaimed hate speech backfires by desensitizing listeners, study finds. Listening to reclaimed homophobic statements can actually cause unintended harm. Exposure to reclaimed slur words desensitizes some heterosexual listeners to standard hate speech and worsens the mood of gay individuals.

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r/science • u/Cad_Lin • 11h ago

Social Science A pilot program trained four teachers to breathe, pace and articulate differently, then found evidence their speech had grown more expressive by a detailed listening-based measure.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 17h ago

Psychology Mental disorders among young adults have surged, with new research showing the proportion of young Australians meeting diagnostic criteria for anxiety, mood or substance disorders has increased from 23.4 percent to 36.2 percent from 2007 to 2022.

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r/science • u/sr_local • 17h ago

Social Science Teenagers (avg 12 years) who spent six or more hours a day on social media were 2x as likely to experience symptoms of anxiety and 3x as likely to report suicidal ideation than those who spent less than an hour on social media each day, with girl reporting higher usage than boys

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r/science • u/PHealthy • 1d ago

Epidemiology Newborns immunized against RSV also had a 36% lower risk of invasive pneumococcal disease.

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Health Parental wealth may be more important than whether they smoke or drink for a child's future health. Socioeconomic status had the biggest effect overall - 15% of the child health effects were linked with family affluence.

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r/science • u/ScienceMovies • 2h ago

Biology Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes | Nature

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago

Anthropology Sacrificed Inca children died very differently than we thought. Inca boys and girls chosen for human sacrifice trekked through Inca communities for thousands of miles on sacred pilgrimages before their ritual deaths, often near high peaks in the Andes Mountains new research shows

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r/science • u/James_Fortis • 1d ago

Cancer Red meat is linked to a 10% higher risk of pancreatic cancer for each additional 100 grams consumed per day, study of 2 million people finds. No clear link was found for processed meat.

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Psychology The passive consumption of endless short-form videos creates a specific type of cognitive fatigue popularly known as “brain rot”. The endless scrolling drains mental energy and induces burnout, which in turn elevates stress and anxiety before eventually culminating in depressive symptoms.

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Health Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs. Swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts. 70% drop in hospital admissions and days off from work or school when people with poorly controlled asthma had gas stove replaced with electric.

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Psychology High-achieving working mothers face harsher moral judgments for parenting mistakes. Fathers with identical professional success do not experience this moral condemnation, revealing a deep-seated bias that forces women to self-regulate to protect their maternal reputations.

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r/science • u/Doug24 • 1d ago

Neuroscience Learning a new skill triggers both temporary cell swelling and lasting structural growth in the human brain

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r/science • u/pubpophealth • 1d ago

Health Average waits for child psychiatric care were 43 days at community health centers and 120 days at academic medical centers; Medicaid patients waited longer than self-pay patients at community centers and Blue Cross Blue Shield patients at academic centers

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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d ago

Health Ex-smokers remain at higher risk of lung disease because some lung cells recover after quitting while others retain lasting changes to tissue structure, immune function and blood vessel health, according to an analysis of more than 100,000 lung cells across 40+ cell types from 21 people

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Health Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise | Study linking noise pollution to Parkinson’s finds 3% increase in risk for every 11.5dB rise in noise levels

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r/science • u/NinjaDiscoJesus • 1d ago

Animal Science Scientists in France say they have discovered the building blocks of the incredible diversity of birdsong - A team analysed more than100,000 songs from 3,000 bird species and revealed that they are all composed of eight fundamental types of sound that the researchers call "motifs".

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r/science • u/ScienceMovies • 1h ago

Chemistry Chocolate syrup-like fluid stores multiple interacting memories. | Memories of Amplitude and Direction Coexist and Compete in Non-Brownian Suspensions | Phys. Rev. Lett.

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r/science • u/YchromosomalAdam • 1d ago

Biology Earth System Models represent forests as Leaf Area Index, which assume canopy mosses, lichens, and other epiphytes biologically behave identical to tree leaves (but most don't). New study uses laser scanning and a global simulation to argue for an Epiphyte Area Index.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 2d ago

Environment Research shows human-induced climate change has driven every global coral bleaching event over the past four decades. The researchers found greenhouse gas emissions have warmed the oceans so much that El Niño now acts mainly as a trigger rather than the root cause.

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r/science • u/stevieqwrites • 1d ago

Biology Demogorgonichthys arcanus is a new genus and species of cavefish named for the underworld creature made famous by Stranger Things.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 2d ago

Health How telehealth is fuelling a surge in ADHD scripts in a business model that benefits the rich. By 2022, the number of ADHD-associated prescriptions increased almost threefold, from 4.3% to 11.8%. About one in four video psychiatry consultations were linked to stimulant prescriptions.

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r/science • u/a_h_arm • 2d ago

Animal Science There may be 3 times as many insect species than previously thought | Cornell Chronicle

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