Author: Dr. David Lowemann

Clowns Shorten Hospital Stays for Kids

Send in the clowns! They may be a powerful tool in getting children suffering from pneumonia out of the hospital sooner. That’s the result of a study by researchers from Carmal Medical Center in Israel who found that using medical clowns shorten a child’s hospital… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, […]

Published on September 10, 2024

Tracking dynamic social impressions from multidimensional voice representation

Recent research by Lavan et al. explores how individuals form complex impressions from voices. Using electroencephalography and behavioral measures, the study identifies distinct time courses for discerning traits, with early acoustic processing preceding higher-order perception. These findings shed light on the temporal dynamics of voice-based person perception and its neural underpinnings. Read Full Article (External […]

Published on September 10, 2024

Study: How Pandemic Isolation Affected Teen Brains

New research uncovers a possible reason why teenaged girls struggled so mightily with their mental health during the pandemic: Scans showed their brains aged far faster than expected during that stressful time, even faster than the brains of their male peers. In the study,… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, […]

Published on September 10, 2024