Florida State University scientists investigating neurobehavioral disorders say that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could be an environmentally induced health condition inherited from a grandmother who smoked during pregnancy. ADHD affects about 10 percent of children and 5 percent of adults in the United States. Health experts have struggled to produce a definitive scientific explanation […]
Confirming what many of us have long suspected, a new study in the journal PLOS ONE has found that a one-sided cellphone conversation in the background is much more distracting than overhearing a conversation between two people. Conducted by Veronica Galván and colleagues from the University of San Diego, the study examined the effects on […]
A virtual reality subway ride has been used by researchers to reveal the extent that paranoia occurs in the general public. Appearing in theBritish Journal of Psychiatry, the study suggests that suspicious or paranoid thoughts are much more common in the general population than was previously thought and that they are almost as common as […]
