Displaying items by tag: department of psychology

Brain scans dispel assumptions about Internet safety, as well as show that critical-thinking skills and impulsivity are at work as users identify spam and phishing sites.
UAB offers activities in support of National Eating Disorders Week.
Neuroscience Café serves healthy portions of fascinating topics in the field of neuroscience at 6:30 p.m. on the third Monday of every month.
Seniors who undergo cognitive training show increased and sustained capabilities for reasoning and speed of processing.
The UAB SPIES Lab research on two facets of user-centered Internet security will be presented at the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium.
The NCHC is the professional association of undergraduate honors programs and colleges, honors directors, and deans, as well as faculty, staff and students.
Running around town trying to get holiday tasks crossed off the list may mean jaywalking to save time. But one UAB expert says this should be avoided at all times.
A UAB study shows early maturing in adolescent girls can increase aggressive and delinquent behavior.

“Arrive Alive: Stop the Texts – Stop the Wrecks!” to be held June 24.

Drowning is the leading cause of injury, death in young children; a UAB expert shared simple steps to prevent accidents.

Researchers at UAB measure an increase in grey matter in the brains of children with cerebral palsy after treatment with CI therapy.

Goodin, director of the UAB Biobehavioral Pain Research Lab, is a clinical health psychologist who specializes in pain-related behavioral medicine.

Schwebel, director of the UAB Youth Safety Lab, researches the prevention of unintentional injuries of children and adolescents.

She was hired as a joint faculty member in 2011 through a partnership between UAB and Glenwood.

UAB study finds lack of traumatic brain injury education among military veterans; movies and TV dramas spread misinformation.

UAB researchers report that making odd food mixtures brings drug-like emotions to binge eaters, potentially hampering treatment of eating disorders.

Novel research at UAB finds that an optimistic personality style affects the amount of pain reported by people with osteoarthritic disease.

Page 12 of 15