As cannabis grows more commonplace among recreational drugs, uncertainties still surround its effect on the brain. Harriet de Wit, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral ...

Citations: Thompson, Leigh, Gary Fine. 1999. Socially Shared Cognition, Affect, and Behavior: A Review and Integration. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. (4 ...

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Neurology, scientists from the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, United States, investigated whether brain pathology related to dementia, such ...

Weed, pot, grass: Whatever you want to call it, marijuana is steadily becoming legal in more U.S. states. The recreational use of cannabis is legal in 14 states and has been decriminalized, meaning it ...

This is Part 2 of a five-part blog series exploring the nature of cognition and its relationship with consciousness. In Part 1, we considered the surprisingly elusive definition of cognition as well ...

How do the cognitive and physiological traits of individuals translate into real-world group dynamics? There is an empirical and theoretical gap between understanding individual-level processes ...

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology dedicated to studying how people think. The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how the interactions of thinking, emotion, creativity, and ...