11 November, 2020

Sleep loss hijacks brain’s activity during learning. Getting only half a night’s sleep, as many medical workers and military personnel often do, hijacks the brain’s ability to unlearn fear-related memories. It might put people at greater risk of conditions such as anxiety and PTSD

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08 November, 2020

Motivational!

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Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy: A short online game in which players are recruited as a “Chief Disinformation Officer” and use tactics like trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful town has shown to reduce susceptibility to political misinformation

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Only 58% of people across Europe were willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine once it becomes available, 16% were neutral, and 26% were not planning to vaccinate. Such a low vaccination response could make it exceedingly difficult to reach the herd immunity through vaccination.

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05 November, 2020

Children Can Acquire Fear Vicariously, By Watching Their Parents’ Reactions

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The "natural experiment" caused by the shutdown of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 2-h shift in the sleep of developing adolescents, longer sleep duration, improved sleep quality, and less daytime sleepiness compared to those experienced under the regular school-time schedule

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04 November, 2020

New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression

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