Department of Psychology News
The Department of Psychology offers students a broad foundation in fundamental psychological concepts. We also provide opportunities for students to take specialty courses and be involved in research and various applied settings. Our curriculum meets the needs of students intending to pursue advanced training in psychology, education, medicine, or other related fields.
Current Psychology News
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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Health Sciences schools team up with other state institutions to showcase faculty and student work.
The first Neuroscience Research Showcase brings together experts across disciplines to share their work and spark new collaborations.
The students and faculty of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ are springing into headlines around the country.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ research team says high blood sugar levels appear to weaken function in key part of brain, mimicking Alzheimer’s.
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Psychology In The News
Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that neuroscientists don’t have any explanations for it. Far from it.
Many people don’t think twice when their physician prescribes antidepressants or other medications—after all, mental health is just as important as physical well-being. However, new research suggests that some of these drugs may quietly interfere with brain development in unborn children, raising urgent safety concerns during pregnancy.
Eliminated grants include those awarded to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Partnership for Research, Assessment, Counseling, Therapy and Innovative Clinical Education (PRACTICE), a mental health clinic at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process.
If you’ve ever found yourself tearing up during an in-flight movie, noticed that your favorite snacks taste a little off at 35,000 feet, or felt like a single cocktail hit you harder in the air than on the ground, altitude could be to blame.
Elon Musk took his chainsaw last month to federal grants for mental health – including two that provide free mental health counseling to youth in Elko and Humboldt Counties, where access to such services is scarce, according to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s Dr. Dan Allen, director and principal investigator of the Nevada Rural Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP). DOGE also eliminated another grant for the mental health needs of homeless children.
A recent discovery of a molecular connection between autism and myotonic dystrophy, a type of neuromuscular disease, may provide a breakthrough on how clinicians approach autism spectrum disorder. The new study by an interdisciplinary team of biomedical scientists, published on April 21 in Nature Neuroscience, used myotonic dystrophy as a tool or model to learn more about autism – effectively using one disorder to better understand the other.
