Summary: Scientists have identified the neural circuitry responsible for assigning emotional value, positive or negative, to social encounters. Two key neuromodulators, serotonin and neurotensin, were found to control opposing emotional responses…
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Parents Often Miss Early Clues About How Kids Feel at School
Summary: Parents often misread how their children feel about school during their first year, usually taking a full year to align with their child’s actual experiences. While most parents believed…
Girls With ADHD Face Higher Risk of Anxiety
Summary: A new study reveals that in girls, symptoms of inattentive-type ADHD significantly increase the likelihood of developing anxiety during adolescence. Inattention and anxiety appear to reinforce each other in…
Facing Trump, Microsoft vows to protect Europeans’ data
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft on Wednesday committed to boosting its presence in Europe and protecting European citizens’ data against a backdrop of rising “geopolitical volatility.” The tech titan’s pledges…
Deepfakes now come with a realistic heartbeat, making them harder to unmask
Credit: AI-generated image Imagine a world where deepfakes have become so good that no detection mechanism can unmask them as impostors. This would be a bonanza for criminals and malignant…
Negative Expectations Worsen Pain More Than Positive Ones Ease It
Summary: New research shows that negative expectations, known as nocebo effects, exert a stronger and longer-lasting impact on pain perception than positive expectations, or placebo effects. In a two-session study,…
Perfect is the enemy of good for distributed deep learning in the cloud
OptiReduce improves latency compared to previous methods like Ring AllReduce by reducing the number of rounds with incast parameter and setting boundaries to the path delay. Credit: Shahbaz Laboratory A…
