In The News: Department of Psychology

Psych Central

Psychopathy has been a Hollywood favorite character trait for years. Determine fact from fiction amidst the entertainment aspects can help you better identify non-verbal cues.

Las Vegas Sun

Mae Ling Catayong was still a teenager when she realized that resources some may take for granted are not easily available to all. Her hard-of-hearing mother鈥檚 hearing aids broke, and as an immigrant who was never taught sign language in school, Catayong鈥檚 mother couldn鈥檛 communicate with her family. They couldn鈥檛 afford replacements, so the family resorted to typing out their conversations on her smartphone.

Las Vegas Sun

Mae Ling Catayong was still a teenager when she realized that resources some may take for granted are not easily available to all. Her hard-of-hearing mother鈥檚 hearing aids broke, and as an immigrant who was never taught sign language in school, Catayong鈥檚 mother couldn鈥檛 communicate with her family. They couldn鈥檛 afford replacements, so the family resorted to typing out their conversations on her smartphone.

Nature

Results suggest that the amyloid-targeting drug candidate slows cognitive decline in some people, but questions remain over its potential side effects.

Medium

Have you given it a name? I call mine Ms. Hyde. She is my friend, critic, partner-in-crime, and the voice of my willpower. She lives inside me within a cloud, a chauffeur of several hats driving the vehicle of my life.

Neuro Rehab Times

鈥淚t makes me lose a little faith in humanity,鈥 says neuroscientist Dustin Hines. The source of his despair is Power Slap, a brutal offshoot of combat sport which sees competitors deliver open hand slaps across the face of their opponent.

KNPR News

The athleticism on display in tennis, football, baseball is captivating. Just look at the way Las Vegas has taken to professional football, hockey, women鈥檚 basketball and more on the way.

Las Vegas Sun

Donald Trump鈥檚 ability to dodge scandals and maintain favorability among his base is a testament to the support he鈥檚 been able to coagulate since coming onto the national political scene in 2015, when he announced his first bid for the White House, said Sondra Cosgrove, a history professor at the College of Southern Nevada.

KNPR News

Could magic mushrooms and ecstasy be coming to a psychiatrist鈥檚 office near you? They will if state lawmakers approve a bill to allow researchers to use psilocybin and MDMA to aid in therapy.

KNPR News

Could magic mushrooms and ecstasy be coming to a psychiatrist鈥檚 office near you? They will if state lawmakers approve a bill to allow researchers to use psilocybin and MDMA to aid in therapy.

Las Vegas Sun

Rob Lang, a renowned public policy expert in Southern Nevada, may have died in June 2021, but his legacy won鈥檛 soon be forgotten. You can drive around Las Vegas and see the fruits of his labor everywhere, from 性视界传媒鈥檚 Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine to Allegiant Stadium 鈥 two projects on which Lang consulted. 性视界传媒, where Lang was a longtime professor, is looking to raise some of the next 鈥淩ob Langs,鈥 and the university has found its first of many.

HealthDay

Youth with bipolar disorder (BD) rate their quality of life (QoL) worse than healthy youth, youth with chronic medical conditions, and youth with certain psychiatric disorders.