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Open-World Video Games Boost Relaxation and Mental Well-Being
Summary: Open-world video games can significantly improve relaxation and mental health, especially for postgraduate students. These games, offering expansive environments and player autonomy, provide a form of cognitive escapism that…
Older adults less likely to experience cybercrime than younger adults—but it’s more financially devastating
An older adult surfing the web. Credit: Age Without Limits, in-press photography, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Adults aged 75 and older are more likely to repeatedly experience cybercrime and related financial loss,…
Study Ties Visual Errors to Paranoid Beliefs
Summary: A new study suggests complex beliefs like paranoia may have roots in visual misperception. Participants prone to paranoia or teleological thinking were more likely to wrongly identify one moving…
Bias in AI amplifies our own biases, finds study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, finds a…
Targeted or Broadcast? How the Brain Processes Visual Information
Summary: Researchers have uncovered how visual information is processed across the brain’s complex and flexible networks. One study showed visual signals are selectively targeted or broadly broadcast, challenging the idea…
New technology shields wind turbines from positive polarity lightning strikes
Positive charges distributed in the air are concentrated near the conventional air-termination, so positive polarity lightning of the same polarity avoids the positive charges and possibly strike the side of…
Teen Brain’s Blunted Reward Response Predicts Depression Onset
Summary: A new study reveals that a reduced neural response to rewards in teens predicts the first onset of depression, but not anxiety or suicidality. Researchers used EEG scans to…
Ketamine Reduces “Giving Up” by Targeting Brain Support Cells
Summary: Researchers have found that ketamine’s antidepressant effects target astroglia, a type of brain support cell, rather than neurons, challenging conventional views. Using zebrafish, scientists observed that ketamine suppressed the…
