Developmental Psychology News

• Iran war renews concerns about lasting toll of traumatic brain injuries to American troops
  Doctors are also still learning how explosive blasts injure the brain versus a physical blow.
• Why do so many doctors and nurses avoid treating patients with addiction?
  In the US, about a quarter of a million people die each year from alcohol- and drug-related illness, despite proven medical treatments for addiction.
• Understanding the sudden ‘grief attacks’ that hit mourners
  A psychologist studied grief attacks and discovered just how powerful and all-consuming grief can be.
• Australia’s under-16 social media ban failing
  Australia’s internet regulator revealed in a recent study that teenagers are continuing to use social media despite the ban.
• Digital habits that rob attention and energy, and how to combat them
  Understanding the science of information overload and the best way to reclaim calm and focus.
• The rise of ‘safety fatigue’ among parents
  The volume of warnings, both real and exaggerated, urgent and negligible, gets so loud that parents lose the ability to tell them apart.
• Many older Americans unaware of 988 suicide help line
  New research suggests that this resource is failing to reach those 50 and older.
• What to do when someone is yelling at you, according to psychologists
  The goal, experts say, isn't to make the other person stop feeling angry. It's to make a real conversation possible again.