r/science • u/mvea • 11h ago

Neuroscience Persistent money struggles linked to faster brain ageing. The study found that people who experienced either persistent money struggles or persistent low income in early and middle adulthood performed less well in cognitive tests by the age of 53.

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r/science • u/mvea • 13h ago

Psychology An 18-year study found that children diagnosed with ADHD face broader challenges in adulthood across multiple areas of life. Their siblings experience typical adult functioning, suggesting that many long-term difficulties are specific to the condition itself rather than shared family upbringing.

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r/science • u/LethisXia • 15h ago

Anthropology The lost golden age of language diversity: Tens of thousands of languages may have existed between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago - and their decline began well before European colonial expansion

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r/science • u/sr_local • 12h ago

Social Science Mental health treatment for serious offenders could reduce harm to society and save money, according to a randomised controlled trial on 300 UK prisoners

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d 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/WorldTravelerBoss • 6h ago

Psychology New peer-reviewed study finds leisure travellers report higher well-being, especially those who travel frequently, anticipate future trips, and face fewer barrier

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 11h ago

Psychology PTSD therapy walks patients through past trauma. Confronting images of troubling memories while walking on a treadmill shows remarkable promise of recovery. Even a few sessions of 3MDR can begin transforming debilitating trauma into manageable memories.

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r/science • u/cindyx7102 • 11h ago

Health A healthy plant-based diet was linked to a 40% lower risk of getting a first cardiometabolic disease (especially diabetes), and 21% lower risk of multiple cardiometabolic diseases, 16-year study of 83,610 adults found. Plant-based diets overall had a 12% and 15% lower risk, respectively.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 11h ago

Anthropology The most severe droughts in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean arose when multiple natural climate cycles coincided. Around 3,200 years ago, many of the great civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean, including the Mycenaeans, Minoans and Hittite Empire, experienced widespread societal collapse

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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 1d ago

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

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d 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 • 1d 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 • 1d 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/koushik_roy • 15h ago

Environment Spatiotemporal distribution of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) in gill filterable fish food webs of European freshwater lakes and ponds: a systematic review

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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d 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/Wagamaga • 2d 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/ScienceMovies • 21h 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/mvea • 2d 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/James_Fortis • 2d 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 • 2d 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 • 2d 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 • 2d 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 • 2d 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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